Word: malamud
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...working artists who learned from each other and in turn passed on knowledge and technique to small groups of artistically minded students. Once a pioneer, Bennington began in the late '60s to find itself outdone by imitators. "We haven't got the money," says Novelist Bernard Malamud, a Bennington faculty member for eleven years. "We are not enticing people as we used...
...curriculum-about half in the sciences. Among the 20 new faculty members added in the mid-'60s were many younger teachers, and the growing unhappiness about Bennington's new direction began to crystallize. Faculty and students (the college went coed in 1969) split into factions. Says Malamud: "It was in its way a revolutionary process...
This is a use of myth which has nothing to do with the more traditional uses throughout this century. Novels like Malamud's The Natural, Updike's The Centaur and Joyce's Ulysses, Barth has said, are certainly admirable successes, but as far as he is concerned, they are at the wrong end of the stick. The trick is not to find the mythic elements in everyday reality but to go straight to the myths themselves to find the real people inside the heroic shells. This is Barth's method in Dunyazadiad and the other two novellas, as well Perseid...
...taken by surprise, he had agreed to come to Cambridge to talk about Rabbit Redux, and whatever else struck him to speak of. It was one week after he'd been hailed by The Times as one of the great contemporary American authors...right up there with Roth. Bellow, Malamud and Mailer. (No longer would he be the fall goy for all of New York's literary establishment...
...Kadar was in the midst of shooting a movie when the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia scattered his cast and crew. Kadar himself wandered over to America where he did a miserable adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Angel Levin. When the tension in his homeland eased, Kadar returned to Prague, regathered his company, and completed without the slightest visible ripple in continuity a film of extraordinary beauty and complexity...