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Brisk Disasters. Norman Paperman is a successful smalltime Broadway pressagent. His gift is for talk, not action. His dream is to get away from job, winter, phony people and their "Death Row" wait for heart disease or cancer "or one of the less predictable trapdoors" to get them. He comes to an uncommercialized Caribbean island called Amerigo. He falls in love with a rundown resort. The owner has it up for sale. Atlas offers to back him. The poor sap says...
Wouk makes the point in countless small ways throughout Don't Stop the Carnival, as he has in other novels. He makes it with clumsy finality at Carnival's end, when Paperman has apparently mastered all the disasters of Amerigo. At that moment, the senseless accidental death of his actress mistress jerks him out of his dream of a tropical paradise. He realizes that what he really wants is to go back where he belongs, back to the wintry but real world of New York. Tearfully, he does...
...claims, by F.O. Matthiessen or Edmund Wilson). The American Scene is a good example of such misunderstanding and exaggeration. But Geismar only writes, this was James's most vicious book at its core, as the 'rootless returner' shall we say?--the orphan-exile from early childhood, the journalist-news paperman-artist, now kicked out, in his own fantasles, from the European castle of culture, still clung to all its familiar furnishing while everywhere. In the American scene revisted, he found only the evidence to confirm his half-discredited but still rigidly embedded dream of foreign culture, his early and nightmarish...
Russian-born Mildred Paperman had been a disappointing witness in the past. In her first court appearance, in 1958, she had shown a feminine sensitivity about her age (50 next October). "What are you trying to do. bury me?" she had snapped to reporters. "I'm five or six years younger than you people said. It's bad enough to be 40, let alone the age you claim." In 1960, Secretary Paperman refused to turn over certain of Goldfine's tax records to the Internal Revenue Service and served ten days in pokey for her loyalty...
Last week Mildred Paperman disappointed again. Wearing a lampshade cloche on her curls, she appeared in court in answer to her summons, was accused of smuggling unauthorized papers and letters to her hapless boss last summer, when he was in the Danbury, Conn.) Federal Correctional Institute. One of her letters contained eloquent testimony to her loyalty. "My only ambition in life," she wrote, "is to see you get out." Instead, Mildred Paperman went in, wearing an inscrutable smile, to serve 30 more days for her devotion to Bernard Goldfine...