Word: manly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that's all I care about." Another time, speaking about his dramatic abilities, he said, "All I know is how to do it. I can't articulate." In hopes of doing better, John Lahr, his son and biographer, has endeavored to display the man by somewhat disjointedly laying out the surface facets of his personality, much as a dresser might have laid out Lahr's costume changes. In dealing with his father young Lahr, who is a drama critic (Evergreen Review), manages to seem both revealingly intimate and inconclusive in his analysis, suggesting that the real man...
...reaches the secret of the genius that prompted the drunk's gratitude and Lahr's fame. The book does successfully summon up the private Bert Lahr and the backstage world in which he lived, but as his son would probably admit, the best way to know the man through and through was to see him onstage. As with most famous performers, the masque, finally, was the man...
Joseph McElroy's startling first novel, A Smuggler's Bible, was about a man trying to invent a world and then smuggle himself into the lives of his invented and remembered populace. In the author's second novel, Hind's Kidnap, the protagonist is obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result...
...What is man but his passion?" the opening poem asks, and Audubon first materializes spellbound by a white heron -as innocent in his passion as the proverbial noble savage. But even in the pure heart of the wilderness, Audubon runs across a romantic poet's notion of evil: other men. And Audubon's passion evolves toward a second level of meaning as Christian suffering...
...three rogues are thwarted and promptly hanged. As they choke on their ropes-bunglers at death as at life-Warren's Audubon unsentimentally identifies with them. In the all-embracing fraternity of failure, Audubon in some sense shares their guilt and their punishment. Now as reconciled to man as he has all along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment, to his "glory"-a favorite Warren word. Truly "Westward and fabulous," the painter's vision is shadowed only by the poet's darkly romantic hindsight on what was to follow: the Civil...