Word: odyssey
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This virile, whimsical odyssey rises to a not-quite-credible climax at the Mexican hideout of Dixie Renegade Edmond O'Brien. It is two years since Appomattox, but O'Brien, nursing a mad dream that he will resume the Civil War, has established himself in a sort of alfresco plantation house as commander in chief of 1,000 or more Apache Confederate troops. Crazy, sure. But if Rio Conchos is no High Noon, it is a tough-minded little western that cuts the television competition down to size. It makes most of the saddlesoap operas that jockey...
...EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review...
...EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review...
...EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review...
Home Trurths. At odyssey's end, the four intellects are, if not wiser, at least candid. They have grown closer than they have ever been, and they may never meet again. Too many home truths have been blurted-the loftily literary Ottensteen, for instance, reveals that he also writes boilerplate for the magazine section of the Yiddish daily under the pen name N. J. Felix. Holly wearily confesses that nothing happens any longer when he writes down the magic words tradition, tragic, committed, alienation. "The word moral looked mean and angry, ailing on the page. And two weeks...