Word: infidelism
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...more professional-and garish-is Gerold Frank's oversized Judy (Harper & Row; $12.50). Ex-Ghostwriter Frank is a sob brother with impeccable credentials (I'll Cry Tomorrow; Beloved Infidel). He merchandises anecdotes with the craft of an attorney summing up for the jury. But does the author stand for defense or prosecution? Frank's descriptions of Garland on Garland are acute and empathetic: "She saw herself so impersonally she could say of her photograph, 'I don't like her hair that way,' or of herself on the screen, 'She could have done that...
...Ringling Brothers circuses. The situation is not helped at all by the "proofs" that fail to satisfy traditional canons of scientific investigations. Despite the published discoveries, despite the indefatigable explorations of the psychic researchers, no one has yet been able to document experiments sufficiently to convince the infidel. For many, doubt grows larger with each extravagant claim...
That kind of razzle-dazzle concertizing does not always win cheers for Organist Fox. "I am controversial as hell," he admits. "My more conservative colleagues regard me as an infidel. They say I'm a showman, and I'm proud to be one." Communication, argues Fox, is what an artist lives for-"audiences on their feet screaming for more." He dismisses musicological purists as "barnacles on the ship of music...
Sloan is an infidel, refusing to accept a God who denied him a horse when he was a prayerful South Carolina child of six. In 1961, he came to Harvard as a freshman and remained three years with mediocre grades. He spent his hours drinking cases of beer in front of the Adams House TV and pissing in the sink of a nearby art room when his bladder beckoned. One night, he fondly recalls, the janitor locked the art room and Sloan was forced to deposit his urine in the House's ashtrays...
Much of it has been told before. of course. Latham has drawn, for a large part, on Miss Graham's memoirs of the period ( Beloved Infidel and College of One ), as well as from Fitzgerald's published letters to Zelda and his daughter Scotty, other Fitzgerald biographies, and the novelist's own autobiographical fiction and essays of the period. Still, Latham has pulled together his resources neatly to tell of Fitzgerald's decline, and he has also filled in many of the gaps by interviewing the survivors of the period who remember the fading Scott...