Word: deere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite family rendezvous is the Wild Goose II, Wayne's 130-ft. converted Navy minesweeper. The Goose is a substitute for riding, which he has had to give up on doctor's orders, except while filming. He still goes after marlin off Baja California, hunts deer in the Sierras. His other prey and preoccupation is Communist expansion. He was a prime mover of the old anti-left Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American I deals. Today, his cause is Viet Nam. "Once you go over there," he says, "you won't be middle...
...captains. He's a good, red-blooded American boy." Buck taught his son to hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon as he graduated from Brewton's all black...
...equipped to write, he remarked, was "The Naked and the Dead Go to Japan." But the mark of the great, or the would-be great, is that they can't do the same thing twice. Both of Mailer's next two novels, Barbary Shore and The Deer Park, struck out with the critics; the latter was rejected by seven publishers, and Mailer even considered printing it at his own expense...
...revision of Deer Park's galleys was excruciating for him, and intense personal unhappiness, as well as the popular rejection of his work, convinced him that it was better to continue the campaign in other genres. "The shits are killing us," Mailer wrote bitterly, "even as they kill themselves." Better, then, to hammer the nails into the coffin directly than through the subtlety of fiction. Better, too, to give the heathens a guided tour than to lose them in the intricate patterns of one's thoughts. Best to wage total warfare, to offer open assault on a society which would...
...history is a weave of event and evaluation, but the evaluation must have a veneer of rationality. Manchester is simply unable to make sense most of the time. When, for example, Kennedy visited the LBJ Ranch shortly after after the 1960 election, he reluctantly forced himself to shoot a deer because, Manchester says, was a national leader he was obliged to resolve any doubts about his mettle." It is doubtful that Manchester discerned Kennedy's thoughts, and this bit of interpretation, like many others, is unconvincing and unreal...