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With selections drawn from fairly regular intervals over these years, this book uncovers Beckett's development from a crisp but somewhat pedantic short-fiction writer ("Dante and the Lobster"), through his experimentation with the novel form (large sections of Molloy and The Unnamable), and finally into the most popularly successful phase of his art, drama (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape...
...appears to the publisher as "a tall, gaunt figure in a raincoat" who wordlessly deposits the sought-after manuscript at his office and departs. Beckett avoids subsequent meetings and transactions, but the gaunt, reticent figure haunts Seaver. Finally, they become friends and collaborate on several translations, most notably in Molloy, from French to English. From this experience, Seaver testifies to the care with which Beckett composes his translations--he "re-creates" the works, "chipping away, tightening, shortening, always finding the better word if one existed, exchanging the ordinary for the poetic, until the work sang...
Stonehouse's far-flung interests and their problems have led some to suspect that he might have been killed. "He made enemies all over the world," says M.P. and former Parliamentary Private Secretary William Molloy. "At some point," speculated another colleague, "he may have crossed somebody's path and they did him in." That possibility gained credence when Miami police found traces of blood and hair, along with a recent imprint of a body, inside a 300-lb. "concrete overcoat" of the type used by the Mafia for burials at sea. Unfortunately for investigators, the body inside...
...Fishbait") Miller, who has been announcing the arrival of the President to address joint sessions of Congress throughout most of the past 24 years. Members felt that he had been neglecting them, giving too many gallery passes to his friends instead of theirs, and replaced him with James T. Molloy, the chamber's popular disbursing clerk...
...Nixonian toilette, Molloy considers it basically sound: "His problems aren't visual." The President, says Molloy, dresses like a successful businessman with small-town roots. This appeals to his constituency. "Nixon is smart enough to wear dark 'authority figure' suits and avoid 'Daddy-went-to-Yale symbols.' " Such political taboos include Saks Fifth Avenue pinstripes and "those itty-bitty, fishy-look ties"-Ivy League silks patterned with tiny birds, animals or fish. They spell snobbishness. Before candidates rush to their tailors with Molloy's notions, however, they should realize that some of his clients...