Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traffic. I marvel at the things Steve Winwood did before the age of twenty. Total artistic control of Spencer Davis's group at sixteen, Dear Mr. Fantasy at seventeen, playing with Clapton at nineteen, it goes on. Winwood may be the most talented person making music today, his virtuosity on keyboards, bass and guitar makes me think Stills has a lotta gall trying to play those three instruments. Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory is a shade better than Low Spark. It's one of the few albums I can listen to, in its entirety, at one sitting. And what...
...surface, Richard Nixon's White House is a visual and mechanical marvel. Inside, where the President reigns in solitary splendor, the marvel is the man himself. The President's post-election campaign of self-assertion rolls on unchecked. Last week there still was no explanation of just why he had unleashed the massive B-52 bombing attack on North Viet Nam. His fiat to reorganize the Government caught the men elevated to super positions unawares and stunned the strata of bureaucracy below. Congress looked on in ignorance like the rest of the country. All through the nation Nixon...
...date. This is partly because women-both alone and with dates-have been lining up to see it. Many find it revolting, but some seem drawn to freckled Linda Lovelace, the female Don Juan who is also funny: a Mad magazine cloning of Little Annie Fanny and Mary Marvel. The Texas actress who plays the role, however, seems unaware that she may be joining Wonder Woman in the underground pantheon of liberation. Asked by a girlie magazine why she made the movie, she answered, "Because I'm an exhibitionist . . . and I make good money...
...shape capable of expressing it. That she was ignorant of great preserves of human experience is undeniable, but to expect more from her or her fiction than she sought to achieve is like asking Elizabeth Barret Browning to have been Shakespeare, and to have written like Shakespeare. The constant marvel of Virginia Woolf's life is that she was able to have a serene marriage, and to compose so much fiction and criticism, despite her personal frailties...
...Gardner's book consisted mainly of the Sunlight Dialogues he would simply get his A for ingenuity as well as a few "Ahs" for cleverness and learning. A few people would marvel (as they will anyway, and justly) at the great skill he shows in blending resonances from such things as the Divine Comedy, the Revelations of St. John and the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh with a story whose surfaces occasionally resemble All in the Family. Happily Gardner is on record as believing that a novelist should tolerate, even affirm the banal and the ordinary. "When Dickens wept over...