Word: jamison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jamison, by Wilfrid Sheed. A scalpel-sharp dissection of a critic criticizing himself...
...Author Wilfrid Sheed, in the recently published Max Jamison, commented most appropriately when he said: "I am not against youth as such. They are wonderfully teachable. But that they should be teaching us; that we should invest them with oracular powers, read into their shrugs and moans some great gnostic wisdom-this is an American superstition so crass that one scarcely knows where to begin with...
...JAMISON by Wilfrid Sheed. 260 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...among the innumerable merits of Max Jamison that Novelist Wilfrid Sheed provides a serious, pertinent answer to this old question. His hero, Max Jamison, is a drama critic by function but a critic by an act of nature: "He preferred a good mechanic to a bad poet from the first." Max is a critic in the way that the 747 flies, the tiger stalks, and water boils at 212° Fahrenheit. He could get irate at a three-minute egg for being a four-minute egg. Before he is even married to her, one of his wives looks...
...himself, in theater (for Commonweal), in films (for Esquire), and in books for several publications. He has put a lot of what he knows, and something of what he is, into this novel. Some novels purporting to be spiny character portrayals are merely leaning towers of print, but Max Jamison is the mocking, funny, sad, irascible, loving, raging, hurting, touch-proof profile...