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...such complex full-blooded passionate females as those who inhabit French fiction from La Princesse de Clèves through the novels of Flaubert and beyond are almost unknown in the works of our novelists." There are memorable figures, of course: Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, John O'Hara's Grace Caldwell Tate and Gloria Wandrous, Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan, Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Steinbeck's Ma Joad, Margaret Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara, Nabokov's Lolita, Roth's Sophie Portnoy...
Intimidated. Not all of the adjustments were confined to the men, of course. Vastly outnumbered, women tended initially to be intimidated in class, though the girls did well in their written work. "You were expected to be a mixture of Margaret Mead and Scarlett O'Hara," says Janet Lever. "There you are in class discussing Lolita, and the professor turns to you and asks for the woman's point of view. It created a very tense situation." By the second year, adds Pepper Schwartz, "the women students had been radicalized. They had more of an idea of what...
...taken of you, even though 20 people say you were 100 miles away. This is because people feel that a photograph has more truth than personal testimony." Leslie's pictorial pragmatism is such that, for a current painting of the death of his poet friend Frank O'Hara (who was run over by a Jeep on the beach at Fire Island in 1966), he had a whole Jeep lifted in through his studio window and chocked up, six feet in the air, to get the angle right...
...wonder. I also wonder how such excitable young men as Jay Cocks and Paul Zimmerman, able to praise Frank Perry or Paul Williams as film masters at a moment's notice, acquired positions at Time and Newsweek held by tougher fellows long ago--James Agee and John O'Hara. Or, why doesn't Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. deem film important enough to bring some of his secular history to it to make for a relevant panache? And why did Joseph Morgenstern, one of the best of the lot, one of the few with human concerns broader than Panavision, drop films...
...that most of the activity in her writing is diversion from heavier judgements. The photo Saturday Off is of a beautiful young black woman leaning up against the base of a column crossing her arms before her like a springer spaniel, looking rich and sexy as any Scarlett O'Hara. "A piece of body torn off at the roots might be more to the point," is what James Agee and Walker Evans in their Let Us Now Praise Famous Men had to say about the rural south in the thirties. It is difficult to forgive the thirties, and Eudora Welty...