Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hateful play; it is bland and innocuous, a two-hour sleeping pill of aimless chatter. In Act I, Nancy (Deborah Kerr) and Charlie (Barry Nelson) discuss their lives, which seem to be a compendium of all the middle-aged plaints one has heard about in recent drama and fiction or, quite possibly, from the next-door neighbor. In Act II, the couple is joined by two English-speaking lizards complete with crocodile tails. The lizards, Leslie (Frank Langella) and Sarah (Maureen Anderson), have been almost ostentatiously monogamous considering the myriads of marine creatures they have slithered against during the eons...
...Eddie Coyle, could be Philip Marlowe's in Los Angeles: "Second floor front, one room with a desk file cabinet and two chairs in case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom be put in a green book bag - a touch as evocative of Boston as the swan boats in the Public Garden...
...quotes Edmund Wilson's definition of the man of letters--"one who can accomplish any literary task that happens to come his way"--Gill describes himself as well. He is our best drama critic, and he arrived at that position only lately, having proved himself at profiles and obituaries, fiction and all manner of criticism. When he writes the autobiography that shines through the cracks in this book, he will need to put The New Yorker aside for a time...
...ever was the material covered in each limited to a single nation, culture or epoch. In one year alone, one could find Hum 1. Humanism in the West; Hum 2. Epic and the Novel; Hum 3. Crisis and the Individual i] In Drama and Biography, ii] In History and Fiction; Hum 4. Good and Evil in Western Literature; Hum 5. Ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought; and Hum 6. The Interpretation of Literature. Although for the most part based on the now unacceptable assumption of the primacy of Western culture and civilization, each of these lower level...
...Jewish household in Manhattan, attended Barnard College and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia. Both Jong and Isadora are poets; both had brief marriages to fellow students, then married American-born Chinese psychiatrists. Most of the novel, says Jong, is "an interweaving of fiction with reality...