Word: loree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Walker Percy, John Updike and E.L. Doctorow, to name only the three most notable examples, had each produced a skilled, serious and powerful novel in 1971. This year, though, most of the customary groans and hisses were reserved for the slenderest and the newest categories. One judge, Lore Segal, a writer of juveniles, filed a solid minority objection when the children's book prize went to Fantasist Donald Barthelme for his arch and static The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering, Thithering Djinn...
When fellow judges in the new contemporary-affairs category chose The Last Whole Earth Catalog, the celebrated counterculture collection that includes a short novel as well as lists of tools, materials, lore and advice about how to live on the land, Garry Wills walked out on the proceedings. The winner, he complained, was a nonbook, and the product not of a writer but of a large group of collaborators...
They could have no better guide than Raphael's lively, scholarly new history of Passover, A Feast of History (Simon & Schuster; $12.50). Drawing on a rich selection of illustrations, Raphael traces celebrations of the Seder back through the centuries, all the way to Abraham (rabbinic lore anachronistically had it that he celebrated a Seder with the three angels who visited him centuries before the Exodus...
Andrea Burrell gets her grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...
...Dietrich (TIME, Feb. 21), and 3) from their own imaginations. In doing their research, Irving and Suskind visited newspaper and magazine libraries in Las Vegas, Houston, New York and other cities, including that of LIFE, which had a contract to publish excerpts from the manuscript. Thus steeped in Hughesian lore, Suskind and Irving took turns pretending to be Howard Hughes, each alternately being interviewed by the other, to produce the question-and-answer dialogue form that the book eventually took. They apparently thought they could get by with the hoax because they suspected Hughes might either be dead...