Word: envoi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...
...most vibrant ever written. The symbols of the book are carefully introduced, but the reader, after finishing the book, is left uncertain as to whether the prologue is Woiwode's autobiographical note or the true end of the novel, to be read after the author's last chapter, "L'envoi...
...That envoi was typical of the man who once told a friend, "I've had a wonderful week; I've had a fight every day." Born to poverty in Brooklyn, educated under John Dewey at Columbia, Hook was one of the first college teachers to give an analytic course on Marxism, and his left-wing activities duly brought demands for his dismissal. Over the years he wrote and edited some 35 books (The Hero in History, Education for Modern Man), and he always relished a good argument-particularly an argument against dogmatism or dictatorship. In the mid-1930s...