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...Profession is a timely and masterful foray into the practice and penetralia of this modern mystery religion. Timely because since the golden age of piety of the fifties--when Salinger's Seymour Glass frolicked blithely with bananafish while his new bride chatted with her mother about what all the "goddam" analysts thought about that peculiar young man--psychoanalysis has been receding from, the public eye. After these years of gestalt therapy, est, and, yes, hot tubs (who can really believe that a neighborhood of fools sitting in a tub of scalding water is therapy?), it seems right to return...
...point, Maya Angelou enjoys the unique experience of meeting Billie Holiday and even singing for Lady Day. Billie invites herself to Angelou's nightclub act and in the middle of the set begins to scream. "Stop that bitch. Stop her, goddamit. Stop that bitch. She sounds just like my goddam Mamma." When Angelou confronts Billie for interrupting her song, she is told that all Black women sing alike--a mold Billie tried to break. But there is no exploration of why the connection between Black women, particularly mothers, would incite such rage in Billie Holiday. Once the anguish is presented...
...movement began to succeed in the early seventies, when the party scored a political victory in Crystal City, Texas. "I was the only one who could write worth a goddam, so I did fundraising," Velasquez recalls of his role in the campaign...
There ain't no other goddam...
...DICHOTOMY could form the book's badly-needed central theme but Dickson unfortunately bumbles. Some of his anecdotes are telling and funny: Fiedler's annual conversation with the New England Provision Company before his end-of-season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis for selecting...