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...lasting strength of families is not in tradition, it is in the capacity for change. Few novelists in years have written as well about the ferocious fragility of family love and family life as John Irving. The World According to Garp has a protagonist?no, a hero???who breaks conventional roles as if they were a halfhearted hammer lock, who not only tends the kids while his wife works and keeps the house in order, but actually takes joy in his tasks. Pride. Fulfillment. The book was more than a smash. It was a true literary phenomenon, and there...
...plains to the places where he was to speak. At night by the lights of desolate country railroad stations, around bonfires in dusty fields beside the tracks, other thousands waited for nothing more than a chance to cheer as ten air-conditioned cars?one of them bearing the sleeping hero???hurtled out of the darkness from the west...
DEATH OF A HERO???Richard Aldington ?Covici, Friede...
...beyond this public lynching?of which Senator Walsh was the impassive, modest hero???nothing has transpired which permits the word "criminal" to be attached to Fall, Sinclair, Doheny...
...Living Mask. Another Pirandello play has come to baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero???an embittered contemporary Italian?is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...
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