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...adolescence. Wodehouse still lives in the same cloud-cuckoo land of titled old blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago. In his 68th, he demonstrates that he has lost little of his zany zest for a world that once put Essayist John W. Aldridge in mind of "an incubator of oafdom." The oafs in Biffen's Millions are all after an obscure-ly willed fortune. What happens to them in the absurdly complicated plot is enough to drive confirmed Wodehousians happily crackers and Pelham Grenville to his 69th book...
...Essayist Kronenberger is the coolest of U.S. society's critics; where others whack away with club and cutlass, Kronenberger sits back and throws darts, quietly but accurately. Among targets: "taste makers and pace setters" who, he believes, have failed to lead U.S. culture to greatness; the system that has seduced so many good writers and artists into working for corporations and their ad agencies, thus creating "a sort of debased intellectual class who, by way of their knowledge and skill, have become rather the writing hands of business, than outright businessmen"; and the great stress placed on the chap...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
...unknown writer named Edward Dahlberg had the rare distinction of shocking D. H. Lawrence. After reading Dahlberg's defiantly proletarian first novel, Bottom Dogs, Lawrence predicted that its author's "next step is legal insanity." Instead, Dahlberg, now 63, became a poet, essayist, and shrewd, contentious critic who once said that he blamed T. S. Eliot "for nothing except the books that he has written." He calls Because I Was Flesh "an auto biography of my faults." It is the story of his first 46 years and of Lizzie, his mother, a Kansas City lady barber "with dyed...
...masses: "Socialism is devised so as to give more strength to these certain kindred favored races so that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little...