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...Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction-which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from upcreek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. This time...
...never lacked for critics eager to consign him to the minors. His career began during the heyday of brilliant U.S. Jewish writing. Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, among others, were the critics' darlings. A sensitive outsider from the sticks did not measure up to prevailing standards. In Commentary, Norman Podhoretz complained, "His short stories ... strike me as all windup and no delivery." Bruised by appraisals like this, Updike eventually turned his hurt feelings to good use: "Out of that unease, I created Henry Bech to show that I was really a Jewish writer also...
...lost youth? Confessing that touring is too difficult for "old guys like us," seraphic-looking Lead Singer Roger Daltrey, 38, has announced that their American journey-beginning this week with a sold-out date at the Capital Centre in Maryland-is their last waltz. But don't consign them to premature senility quite yet, for the band will continue to make albums and perform in a few concerts. In other words, the answer to "After The Who, who?" is The Who, Phase...
...make ends meet, virtually every Ugandan has resorted to cheating. Cab drivers charge 1,000 shillings for the 21-mile drive from Kampala to Entebbe airport, ten times the fare a year ago. Clerks at government-controlled stores routinely consign salt, sugar and other commodities to the black market, where they sell for many times the official price. Coffee, Uganda's biggest cash crop, is smuggled into neighboring Burundi, which last year exported more than twice the quantity of coffee beans it harvested in its own fields. Says a Ugandan clergyman: "I don't know if our people...
...plot of this New York City gang movie is almost nonexistent, and what does exist is tedious. The large cast is wooden; the language is flat; the humor is childish, and the content would not engage the imagination of a lesser insect. Still, it is not so easy to consign The Warriors to the junk heap. Though The Warriors is trash, it is handsome trash. It excites the eyes even as it numbs the mind...