Word: herzog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well did he want to be the President?" wondered Arthur Herzog in McCarthy for President, his book about the 1968 campaign. "He was 'willing,' again, the right answer from the intellectual's point of view, but the wrong one from the conventional politican's. Ambiguity appeared to be a quality which, however human, Americans did not like to contemplate in a President...
...Standing outside all day, my feet get wet and very cold," Frank Procopio said. He is the co-owner, with Jack Herzog, of a new newsstand at 1210 Massachusetts Avenue. They sell bubble gum, cigarettes, and the New York Times-and, Procopio said, they face many problems...
...best books of the '60s came out ghastly-funny, as if novelists were facing nuclear-age madness, crossed eyeballs to crossed eyeballs: Terry Southern in his underrated little masterpiece The Magic Christian, John Barth in The Sot-weed Factor, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in Mother Night, Saul Bellow in Herzog...
...comment, like the book itself, underlines the fact that in some ways this century has made Bellow a profoundly conservative man. "That was one of the things I was trying to say in Herzog, too," Bellow admitted to TIME Correspondent Martha Duffy. "Today you can simply be distracted to death. Tearing the self apart has become a social duty...
...years ago took up calmer residence in a five-room apartment on Chicago's South Side. It is a bachelor's flat-no curtains, orderly bookshelves and unobtrusive modern furniture. Three marriages have left Bellow with three sons, age 25, twelve and five, and three divorces. Herzog, which camped on the best-seller lists for a winter, brought him financial security, though -he cannot help remarking-it was praised for a lot of the wrong reasons: "topical, Jewish and political reasons." He no longer needs to make money from teaching, but Bellow continues to follow a pattern familiar...