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Sheed has tried to function both as a desk-bound essayist, considering Ali as a charged particle visible through the tubes and teleprinters of the press, and as a reporter, observing the man in his splendid flesh, talking with him, touching him, telling us what Ali is really like. The worthwhile results might fill a short magazine article. The rest is throat-clearing, padding and prattle. "Why write about Ali? Why paint the Mono Lisa?" Sheed asks aimlessly. And elsewhere: "It was almost as hard to tell how much Ali was really suffering as it is with his fellow Capricorn...
...vigorous mix of farce and moral fervor in Humboldt's Gift. Charles Citrine, the book's late middle-aged hero, is-like Bellow-a dedicated resident and booster of Chicago. The son of Jewish immigrants, he has made a name for himself as a Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer, essayist and playwright. LIFE has commissioned him to write an intimate article on Bobby Kennedy. The French government has honored him with an Order of the Chevalier, which entitles him to wear a green ribbon in his lapel. As it turns out, the decoration is about as prestigious as the alligator...
...those who have always wondered what it would feel like to be worked over by the Gestapo, French Essayist and Novelist Jean Raspail has concocted a reasonable facsimile. The Camp of the Saints shrewdly exploits a dilemma that the world may well face: the moment when the burgeoning Third World rises from misery and forces the West to share more of its resources. Apocalyptic fiction could come from this chilling premise, but Raspail, 50, is willing to settle for a harangue...
...PRAISE WITH WHICH some critics have greeted Celebration probably has more to do with their respect for its author, a novelist and essayist who taught at Sarah Lawrence and died in December 1972, than with its merits as a novel. A political writer from a generation that provided no large community of political artists. Swados published his first novel in 1955, when the Cold War was at its iciest, the United States was prosperous, and middle-class and professional people could be told that the working class was a figment of Communist propagandists' imaginations. In the 1930s, when large chunks...
Kobysh calls Galbraith "an economist and sociologist of world repute," a "brilliant essayist," and "a close associate of John Kennedy and ambassador to India at his request," and mentions that he is "more than two meters tall...