Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serving as "a virility source. Clyde [of Bonnie and Clyde] is impotent, and he is using his gun to balance that." Indeed, Freudians point out that the gun is an obvious phallic symbol, conferring on its owner a feeling of potency and masculinity.* In a talk with French Novelist Remain Gary two weeks before he died, Robert Kennedy perceptively touched on a related aspect of the gun mystique. "I like Hemingway very much as a writer," said Kennedy, "but he was the founder of a ridiculous and dangerous myth: that of the firearm and the virile beauty...
William Styron, D.LET., novelist...
Imperial Manner. In Harper's, Novelist Merle Miller (Only You, Dick Darling!) concentrates on the Alsop personality. He quotes anonymous Washington sources to the effect that Alsop has become obsessed with Viet Nam. When Bobby Kennedy made a speech saying that the U.S. couldn't win in Viet Nam, Alsop, writes Miller, called the Senator's office three times to denounce him as a "traitor" to his country. To win in Viet Nam, Alsop is even willing to use what he calls "Mr. Big"-the atom bomb-Miller says. "Friends call the Alsop manner imperial," sums...
Middle-aged lyric poets, like middle-aged lovers, are somewhat of a contradiction in terms. There is unavoidable comic pathos when words of springtime frenzy clack through dentures and lips that taste of Geritol. But there is about them, also, a kind of Quixotic gallantry. British Novelist Anthony Burgess, 51, has caught these mixed vibrations in a funny and affecting portrait of the artist as a middle-aged...
...sometimes it appears as if he settled on the point first, then invented a story to illustrate it. When this happens, a deadening air of calculation clouds his writing. It is almost as if his critical faculty overwhelmed his creative instinct, for Elliott, at 49, is not only a novelist (In the World) and poet (From the Berkeley Hills) but also a provocative essayist on social and literary issues (A Piece of Lettuce...