Word: logorrhea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perennially bestselling Novelist Taylor (This Side of Innocence) Caldwell has essayed a life of St. Luke which will suffocate most readers in its lavender logorrhea. Lucanus. as the author calls the Greek physician who wrote the third Gospel and the Acts, meets all the specifications for women's historical fiction. He is lithe, blond, radiantly handsome and invincible at fencing, foot races, discus-throwing and the standing broad jump. He is an accomplished linguist and, of course, a shrewd internist and master surgeon; he often needs only a short talk or a touch of the hand to heal...
...sort of Thomas Wolfe cub, Author Salamanca, 34, has the Wolfeian flaws of logorrhea, overintensity and repetition. But he has some of the Wolfeian virtues as well: his characters-Christian and Uncle Rolfe and the rest-come thunderously alive; he can tumultously evoke the rites of spring; he is equally sure in dealing with the frenzies of a crazed stallion or the moiling mind of an adolescent. What is needed is an editor...
...more of his internal agonies, aspirations, despairs and creative frenzies than are ordinarily found in the correspondence of a great writer. But, best of all, it is impossible to read the Letters without wanting to go hungrily back to the novels that-for all their dithyrambs, apostrophes, narcissism and logorrhea-go deeply into the mighty American spirit...