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Even with his humorous and noble style intact, Lancelot is Percy's bitterest novel, written not with the black humor of alienation but with the crotchety distemper of a curmudgeon. It does not add to Lancelot Edwarde Lamar's credibility as an existential visionary that he speaks from a private cell in a mental hospital, reflecting on his incineration of his adulterous wife and her lover on his family estate. There is a sense that Percy feels ambivalent towards a character who might be his spokesman and who might also be crazy...
Lancelot Andrewes Lamar is Percy's most painful case to date. A Rhodes scholar and onetime football hero, he goes to seed in classic Southern style. He takes up the law, drink and the care of a rundown showplace home near New Orleans. Only when he suspects the infidelity of his second wife, Margot, a brassy Texan worth $10 million, does Lancelot realize what he has made of his life: "I had done nothing but fiddle at law, fiddle at history, keep up with the news (why?), watch Mary Tyler Moore, and drink myself into unconsciousness every night...
Peabody has garnared other honors this year. After the Yale game he was given the Henry N. Lamar award for his contributions to the football program. His classmates also elected him First Marshall for the Class of 1977 last month...
TIME described its original list as "a fallible selection," and in some ways it was. One of the 200 is now in jail for income tax evasion (New York City Councilman Matthew Troy). Some lost elections-but are doing well in other pursuits (Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, who lost the 1974 gubernatorial race to Democrat Ray Blanton, is now a television commentator; Minneapolis Mayor Albert Hofstede, edged out by Charles Stenvig in 1975, is a bank vice president...
...negativism of the hard core, is not getting across. "We have done an absolutely rotten job of selling ourselves," says Washington's G.O.P. Governor Dan Evans. "We are spending too much time arguing over what part of the political spectrum we are in?giving too many saliva tests." Lamar Alexander, Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 1974, complains that the party has not been as effective as Jimmy Carter in "expressing conservative life-styles and personal values." Political Analyst Kevin Phillips agrees: "A lot of practical conservatives could support Carter. He has a cultural appeal to the New Majority...