Word: heartlands
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...continent's most creative and authentic literary voice. In one of its best-known sections, The United Fruit Co., he mockingly writes of "Jehovah" parceling out the universe to "Coca-Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities," while the United Fruit Co. "reserved for itself: the heartland/ And coasts of my country...
THIS DUO HARDLY SUFFERS the run of the mill depression destitution; they make it big off of everyone else's. They are cool, classy and successful, with enough self-confidence to tell anybody off. The American heartland is their arena for hustling and stealing. They sell Bibles to grieving widows, trade a five and four ones for a ten dollar bill, and steal a bootlegger's liquor to sell it back...
...than a poet. He dreams of a future in which cities of no more than 50,000 people are located on continental perimeters. No farms, of course. One meets one's needs with microbial food (yeast plus two tons of petroleum equals one ton of pure protein). The heartland becomes a kind of hunting preserve. From earliest years, children are sent into this wilderness to be truly educated about their nature and their relationship to nature. Reading, at first, is "circumscribed and limited...
David Rhodes, in a brilliant first novel called The Last Fair Deal Going Down, shows he knows about the Midwest. Because Rhodes grew up out of it, loving it and hating it, a strong and peculiar relationship to the heartland pervades his book. Picking the hardcover up from the shelf--stark black lettering looming, out from a staring white with the braille letter punched neatly underneath, you can leaf through and get a quick sense. The copyright page announces that the novel is "translated from the braille by David Rhodes," although Rhodes is not blind. The inside leaf is bereft...
...scarce as deadpan reporting in the National Lampoon. The venerable news agency will try to change that beginning this week by syndicating "The Phoenix Nest," which ran for 14 years in Saturday Review before Norman Cousins left the magazine. Martin Levin, who edits the column, thinks that the heartland is ready for some topical humor because "the little old lady from Dubuque is now in touch with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence of insect parts in food: "Instead of complaining...