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...century . . ."-a clause which, with Connolly, can lead only to Proust. But despite all those reviews in the Observer and then the Sunday Times of London, he was not primarily a critic. He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist. Here he is, taking off from the Gide-Paul Valery letters: "Letters are most alive when freshly delivered in the sender's handwriting, something perishes when they are typed, more when they are printed, most of all when they are translated. Finally we are left with a well-pressed...
...delicious goldfish and two tantalizing white mice. Other pet owners include Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, whose wire-haired terrier Bravo resembles Asta in the Thin Man movies of the '30s; Assistant Managing Editor Richard Seamon, who is putting his nine-week-old Labrador through basic training; and Zookeeper-Essayist Stefan Kanfer, who rooms with two mice, five turtles and two cats somewhere in Tarrytown, N.Y. Reporter-Researcher Mary Themo, while getting together the pictures of pets that accompany the story, took time off to shop for a Christmas pet for her daughter Tracy...
Safire wrote some time ago that he hoped to "become more of an essayist than a columnist - perhaps a slow Swift or a hazy Hazlitt." Well, anyway, hazy...
...fingers." So the young Kanfer went to New York University and ended up writing advertising copy, gag lines for Victor Borge, short fiction, TV programs, a few off-Broadway shows. In 1966 he joined TIME as a writer for the Show Business section before turning movie critic and essayist. This week he was back at his old haunt for our story on the renaissance of magic. Over the years, Kanfer has worked on enlarging his bag of tricks. He has learned hundreds of card stunts, math games and vanishing acts from his friend, Science Writer Martin Gardner, through whom...
Susan Sontag, novelist, essayist and film maker, brought her 1970 film "Brother Carl" to the Carpenter Center last night and told her 400-person audience after the showing that she "would not make this film...