Word: malcolm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, "something else blew up-and I just stayed." The Australian Broadcasting Commission's Donald Simmons plans to stay "as long as I don't get knocked off. Why give up the best news story in the world in favor of pushing a pen behind a desk?" Malcolm Browne, formerly of the Associated Press, has been awarded a fellowship and will leave soon, after five years in Viet Nam. "I have the horrible, sinking feeling," he says, "that I may never be able to come back...
Since then, a great tidal wash of malice and misunderstanding has oscillated in the Atlantic. Malcolm Bradbury's Stepping Westward is the latest fictional flotsam on this tide. It is a pointed little farce, and as cultural anthropology it offers a thoughtful thesis to such British and American minds as can rise above the trousers-pants hassle. The Englishman in the U.S., it demonstrates, is no longer a comic figure known for his arrogance, social pretension, accent or what not. He is a switched-off, not-with-it fellow whose vague uncertainties about the liberal vision of life reflect...
STEPPING WESTWARD by Malcolm Bradbury. 390 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...received, young Auberon Waugh, 26, displayed some of the malicious wit that he inherited, writing a series of parody obits for London's Daily Mirror, in which he buried some of the "dead" who are still quite quick. He took special delight in his "scabrous epitaph" for Critic Malcolm Muggeridge, 63, who had done one of the obits offensive to Auberon. "In an unsavoury and fashion-obsessed period of history," wrote Evelyn's lad, himself a novelist and journalist, "he taught us all how disgusting we were. It may well have been the case that in the last...
...this perspective, the significance of Malcolm's death emerges. If his shifts of attitude were not the power plays of an irresponsible Negro leader desiring a personal following--and these books say they were not--then what Malcolm was groping for when he died might have helped the Negro cause. If he was a demagogue ("I have cherished my demagogue role") and a fanatic Black Muslim Minister was a zombic then."), he was surprisingly open-minded, idealistic, and deeply committed to bettering lot of the Negro American. His assassin may have killed the fanatic, he also killed the promise...