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Kerouac said he thinks Emily Dickinson, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot were the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and Marcel Proust, Jean Genet and William Faulkner the greatest prose writers. But "Hemingway was nowhere. He wrote childish sentences, like Beckett does...
...confront Goodman with a childish conundrum, what would society be like if a great many people suddenly behaved as he does--denying social order in the quest for absolute personal freedom? There is only one answer to this query. We would soon find ourselves living in a community of hardened, broken, narcissistic individuals. This cannot be the Utopia he envisions...
...lend insight into men who shape events. He captures Robert Kennedy on the telephone. "Hi General," he begins; "Listen, I'm not very much in favor of picking the Governor up and lifting him away. I'd rather just push him aside a little." His voice is almost childish; his energy is magnetic; he is in control...
...later years, his youthful infatuation with the flamboyant Fauves embarrassed him as a childish excess. In 1908 Braque was drawn to fragment his vision in the manner that became known as Cubism, after seeing Picasso's panorama of naked prostitutes, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Their fractured postures impelled Braque to a further dissection of nature. He and Picasso, working together, began turning out canvases so similar that in later years they could not recall which of them had painted what. In 1912 Braque invented the paper collage, in which scraps of newsprint and ticket stubs were glued onto...
Etain O'Malley makes Helene into an almost puppet-like characature of a young girl--too childish, unfortunately, to be convincing as a bride. But while her mechanical motions and speech are unsuitable at times, they do set up a few uproarious scenes. Whoever did her make-up on Wednesday night, however, should be dismissed immediately. It was ugly...