Word: jamesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buechner's readers likely to be. His career clearly is moving through one of those second acts which are supposed not to occur in American lives. His first novel, a mannered, Jamesian confection called A Long Day's Dying, had a splashy success in 1950, when Buechner was barely out of Princeton. He wrote another novel without really consolidating his reputation as a bright boy who had scored early. Then, "somewhat to the astonishment of my family and friends," came the decision to study theology...
...dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...
...master neglect his corporeal self. Wearing a peaked hat on his head and carrying a walking stick, he took his daily constitutional along the roadways of Sussex, often shadowed like a caricature by his dachshund Maximilian. Or else he donned his knickerbockers and a striped jacket and, with Jamesian dignity, hopped onto his bicycle to go for a spin...
...humor and feral power. In the succeeding nine years, he has foundered in murky metaphysics (Tiny Alice), dabbled in adaptations (The Ballad of the Sad Cafe) and gone down experimental blind alleys (Box-Mao-Box). Instead of lunging for the jugular, as he once did, Albee has cultivated a Jamesian languor in his prose, a fastidious dandyism of manner, a dusty, librarefied reserve. Portentousness of delivery is used to mask vacuity of thought. In his latest play, All Over, we instantly recognize him for what he now is -the club bore...
...interested in sensations as psychology, Director Petri forgoes the subtleties of a typical Jamesian ghost story to concentrate on visceral effects. The movie has many kinky and splendidly horrifying moments, including a sadistic nightmare, a daylight visitation in a garden, and a tumultuous seance sequence Franco Nero, in a difficult part, manages to convey just the right amount of obsessive menace;, while the excellent Vanessa Redgrave, in a simpler one lends to the proceedings a saving edge of meticulously rendered reality...