Word: malamud
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Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...
Like Becketts of blood, we, in deep Malamud...
...Surely there has never been so large a cluster of egregious flops in the span of a couple of years," he declares in a sweeping judgment on the recent works of such eminent names as Katherine Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and James Baldwin. "There are various ways to declare the death of the novel: to mock it while seeming to emulate it, like Nabokov or John Barth ... or to explode it, like William Burroughs, to leave only twisted fragments of experience and the miasma of death...
Midst laurels stood: ex-Astronaut John Glenn, 42, named winner of the $5,000 George Washington Award, highest honor of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation, "for inspiring all Americans to actively espouse resolute, responsible and reverent patriotism"; James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Hans Hofmann, Louis Kahn, Bernard Malamud and John Updike among the 14 architects, painters and writers named to The National Institute of Arts and Letters; former New York Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, 61, in whose honor the 559-mile New York State Thruway will now be known as Dewey Thruway...
...Malamud's own case is less clear. Ever since The Assistant and his collection of stories The Magic Barrel, which won the National Book Award in 1959, Malamud has been recognized as a unique voice in U.S. literature. He catches his vulnerable characters in lurid movement and mid-passion-as if frozen in the light of a signal flare. His ear for Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive...