Word: herman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herman Gollob, editor in chief of Atheneum, admits that "there is one kind of fiction that is disappearing - the non-friction novel that gives off no sparks, that is selfconscious, competent, tedious. But the rest of the list has unprecedented vitality and variety. If you can get Judith Krantz's Scruples and John Irving's The World According to Garp on the same bestseller list, you have a thriving democratic literature. " It is a literature that will always experience depressions as well as rallies. But for now, most publishers of novels and stories are bullish on fiction...
...comment was his former boss Richard Nixon. During the Watergate hearings, asked Cavett, did Ehrlichman feel he was being held to the fire by "men more honorable than yourself?" "Well," Ehrlichman replied, "I never had that suspicion about the Senate in general." As for the Watergate committee, which included Herman Talmadge, Edward Gurney, and the late Joseph Montoya, Ehrlichman said, "A lot of them have stumbled or in one way or another have been enmeshed." Added Ehrlichman, with scarcely concealed satisfaction: "It's a little bit like the people who opened King Tut's tomb...
Marvin Molar, who walks on his hands and can balance on a finger; Herman Mack, who eats an entire car; Joe Lon Mackey, a homicidal sadist. This gallery of grotesques could only have been invented by Harry Crews, a Southern gothic novelist who often makes William Faulkner look pastoral by comparison...
...Remembrance, Herman Wouk...
...Caine Mutiny, the novel that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952, Herman Wouk created a character named Tom Keefer. Lieut. Keefer was an officer on the Caine, but his preoccupation was the great war novel he was writing: Multitudes, Multitudes. Now Wouk has written a novel that would have daunted even Keefer: World War II with the original cast. The author began his story with what he calls a "prologue," The Winds of War, an 885-page novel published in 1971. In that book the action was carried on the square shoulders of a Navy career officer named Victor...