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...torturous business, this effort to "discover the mind," as the prolific Princeton philosopher-photographer-literateur Walter Kaufmann makes clear in this second volume (on Nietzshe, Heidegger and Buber) of his trilogy on the roots of contemporary social philosophy (the first dealt with Goethe, Kant and Hegel). Nietzsche, Goethe, Freud, respectively philosopher, poet and psychiatrist, have contributed, each in his own fashion, to our understanding of ourselves...
That is the script's main-and almost only-joke. As the story's central character, Actor Segal shows flashes of a comic talent hitherto unexplored by Hollywood. But what picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical literateur. As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity, while for his livelihood, he caters to audiences of culture-ridden housewives who beg, "Please, my Debbie wanted me to ask you about Philip Roth...
Died. Oliver St. John Gogarty, 79, irreverent, witty Irish literateur, the "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" of James Joyce's Ulysses, proclaimed (by Irish critics and himself) the world's greatest conversationalist, playwright (The Enchanted Trousers), poet (Wild Apples, Selected Poems), author (as I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself...
...those of us who don't have girl friends, Mount Auburn Cemetery has always been a place where they bury people. It was a curious institution, this Mount Auburn, where, rumors suggested, every literateur from Euripides to Ernest Hemingway was entombed. Just to make sure, and to satisfy an insistent editor-boss, we strolled through its sacred arbors one misty, ethereal afternoon this week; frankly, we wish we'd never gone...
Among the authors represented are found such names in contemporary literature as William Faulkner, whose great book "Absalom, Absalom" provides him with an entree into the library of any literateur; Ernest Hemingway, whose recently published "To Have and Have Not" is arousing so much critical comment; Morley Callaghan; William Saroyan, one of the most outstanding of contemporary short story writers, Lovell Thompson, Benedict Thielen, and many others...