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...these hazards must be added the loneliness of a man who is by necessity an outcast. Umpires and players do not mingle, fly in the same plane or sleep in the same hotel. Their fan mail is light and invariably scathing. "I occasionally get birthday cards from fans," says the National League's Al Forman. "But it's often the same message: they hope it's my last...
Outrage & Hope. "I am an outcast," Chambers wrote in his bestselling autobiography, Witness. He traced his feeling of isolation to his birth, as the unwanted child of a struggling commercial artist and a thwarted actress. Chambers was raised in Lynbrook, on the south shore of Long Island, where "family life festered incurably at the heart of our home." At one point. Chambers' father deserted his wife and two sons and sent them an allowance of only $8 a week. Chambers' mother developed a fear of prowlers, and took to sleeping with an ax under her bed. Chambers himself...
...early, vigorous fiction that brought him fame, John Steinbeck wrote in the language of the outcast and sided with the outsiders. It was an ambiguous form of social protest, since Steinbeck sometimes seemed less at war with the unjust acts of society than with the fact of society. One never quite knew whether his heroes wanted to storm the barricades or take to the woods and play hooky from the machine age. In Dubious Battle found him siding with Communist labor organizers, but in Tortilla Flat he sided with an amorally jolly bunch of vagrants and winos. In The Grapes...
More memorable than any of "the suborder Serpentes" is CJ.P. Ionides himself, utterly fearless, wily as Ulysses, not wholly admirable and yet strangely endearing, a kind of outcast hero with the rare courage to be his remarkable self...
...young boy, Jean-Pierre Leaud manages to steal the show from his older and more experienced fellow actors. His transformation from a mischievous, carefree imp to a lonely but childishly appealing outcast is convincingly portrayed, and his portrait of the sensitively curious, misguided child is remarkably well sustained. The other performances, especially those of Claire Maurier and Albert Remy as the blundering parents, are appropriately less delicate and in equally perfect taste...