Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion was the 54th anniversary of a similar gift by U.S. Banker A. Barton Hepburn for a chair in American studies at Tokyo University Law School. For Mitsubishi, Harvard was a logical choice: it has both great prestige and some of America's foremost Asian specialists, including Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan...
Outstanding scholars such as Paul A. Freund, an authority on American constitutional law and often mentioned as a Supreme Court possibility and Edwin O. Retschaner ambassador to Japan in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations have received public acclaim as well, a factor in their selection as University professors...
...extended title indicates, Novelist Mullhouse lived a mere eleven years, and his output, aside from a few little stories, was a "novel" called Cartoons, inspired by innumerable comic books and animated movie features. Though mildly precocious, Edwin is in fact a rather ordinary little fellow. The one to watch is Jeffrey Cartwright, a rare demon in the Nabokovian mold. With his "extraordinary, truly inspired memory," Jeffrey recalls his first meeting with Edwin, which occurred when the former was six months old and the latter but a few days. From that moment, Jeffrey preys upon the unfortunate Edwin, and after...
...biographer, Jeffrey shares the mania for list making that afflicts everyone from Joyce to Susan Sontag. There are catalogues of Edwin's first utterances ("nnnn" for complaining, "kkkk" for giggling and "chff" - "an early version of Jeffrey?"); the 54 books Edwin owned at age two. There are also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke...
After such fare, young Edwin turns to cartoons with enthusiasm. He starts by saying things like "Thanks, Mister," with appropriate cartoon intonation. Then comes a little poem written on the death of a friend that ends with "That's all, folks!" Mullhouse's novel, which also ends with the immortal cartoon closing line from Looney Tunes, seals its author's literary future. Jeffrey decides that his own mission in life is to immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things...