Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Faulkner had made Gavin Stevens an artist instead of a lawyer, chances are the Mississippi novelist's folksy philosopher would have been just about the spitting image of Carroll Cloar. As it is, Cloar never made it into print, but with the retrospective of his works currently making the rounds of nine Southern cities, he has clearly added a colorful chapter of his own to the legendary South (see color page...
NORMAN'S LETTER by Gavin Lambert. 232 pages. Coward-McCann...
Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...John Kennedy's funeral, and evidently that occasion ended the coolness. This time Ike and Harry got together at a Kansas City luncheon sponsored by an organization called U.N. We Believe. Bantering warmly, the old chiefs were so chummy that Harry's close friend Tom Gavin smiled: "I liked what I saw. I thought it was great. President Truman does...
Robert Shaw gives us Caliban, "gaping with gross howls," Maeve Kinkead '68 sees "an ocean gone alizarin," and in Gavin Borden's poem, "An impartial breeze will window/cherished ashes from green, blown leaves." They manage to sound like poets, but the sound effects and tricky adjectives are stuck in for their own sakes, and not for the poem...