Word: muldoonism
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Released by this mystical perception from the ordeal of playing out his role as the last New Englander, Bronson went to Japan, and was killed in a highspeed train crash. Even more devastating, his works and life fall into the hands of a professor-critic-and intellectual mortician-named Muldoon. A pugnacious Boston Irishman, Muldoon does a reckless reconstruct job on Bronson's Yankee soul-a rambling self-parody of scholarship which forms the loose frame of the novel. Understand Bronson, and you will understand America-"our present and our future." This is mad Muldoon's thesis...
...strongest presence in the novel -wilder than Bronson, more outrageous even than Muldoon-is the author. Born in Buenos Aires, graduated from Harvard, now a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Tufts, J.M. Alonso, 34, is one of the most exotic students of American character since that other Hispano-American, George Santayana. Tirelessly inventive in his theories and his jokes, Alonso exuberantly refuses to draw lines between the two. But on at least one or two points, he would seem to be speaking seriously, and for himself. Like Santayana, he knows in his Latin bones something the natives...
...America, Alonso would appear to be letting Muldoon speak for him when he sputters: "Even if New England were to contribute more transcendentalists now, they too would be exactly like the produce from the rest of the nation: somehow Californian, hedonistic Pollyannas who betray in their every drug-scented utterance their own fundamentally middleclass, consumer's approach to the Great Questions...
...Bronson, mad Muldoon, and mad Alonso may be right-this is the age of Ralph Disney Emerson. But what marvelously alive exceptions they make to the rule of blandness...
Nevertheless, the limited similarities between older A2 strains and HK-68 account for the sharp differences in symptoms among victims, according to the University of Illinois' Dr. Robert L. Muldoon. A severe bout of A2 years earlier left some persons' systems ready to react instantly and forcibly against any related virus. Many of this winter's flu victims had never had Asian flu, and therefore had no foundation antibody on which to build a counterattack...