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...British Biographer Monica Furlong, 50, offers the first full-length assessment of the hermit celebrity, a provocative and thoughtful examination of a life that she judges to be "victorious...
Mason runs his business from an elegant boathouse office on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla., where the self-described "frustrated hermit" can survey both his flourishing accounts and his lush 75-acre estate. Starting out with a motley collection of Florida mortgage, banking and land-developing firms, Mason in 1968 bought 60 small gas stations that eventually led to his acquiring $70 million worth of key Signal Oil & Gas properties two years later. From 1969 to 1974 Charter assets jumped 1184%, as the voracious Mason gobbled up other properties, including Ladies' Home Journal and Redbook magazines...
...hell turns out to be funny. The nice normal woman down the hall is really a competitive monster ("that's right, four 20-page papers due tomorrow, and I haven't done any work for my exams"). The tutor who does nothing but play loud music becomes a hermit, hiding away in his suite to work on a paper that was due "two years...
...Like a hermit crab, John Updike inhabits old but serviceable forms: the novel, short story and light verse, the Christian church, a duly consecrated marriage (his second) and a 19th century Massachusetts farmhouse. Both the artist and the man have discovered the vital irritants and ironic satisfactions of the familiar and traditional. His body of work grows with impressive regularity. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a fixed star at The New Yorker. Yet many critics have called him irrelevant, accused him of having nothing to say and proffered the supreme lefthanded compliment...
...could one imagine a connection between Santayana and Jones's cult? Santayana--the philosopher of the American consciousness, the dissector of our spiritual heritage; the rationalist Harvard professor, the ascetic hermit; the half-Spanish, half-Boston Brahmin writer who knew the spirit of this country so well yet found it troubling and oppressive--what did Jim Jones see in his words? Surely there is some subterranean meaning in this strange confluence of philosophies...