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During his Magazine Management days, Puzo never stopped his intake of calories or his output of serious fiction. His second novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim, drew heavily on his childhood experiences. Again he found an audience of enthusiastic reviewers, but few paying readers. The author remained a hermit to New York literary life, though he had some close writing friends. Among those in his regular card-playing group was Joseph Heller. Recalls Puzo: "I used to get mad at him and throw his papers around. How could I know that the stuff was going to be Catch...
Matthiessen's excursions into intellectual history and "one's true nature" distract from his sensuous descriptions of nature, and his discourses on Zen often get in the way of his personal reflections. He bears his pilgrim's burden with melancholy dignity, but, ironically, his book lacks an essential Zen element: wit, the lightness of touch that is absolutely necessary when jiggling the web of paradoxes nature has stretched across its secrets...
Jerzy Kosinski: The Disenchanted Pilgrim...
...been here a long time," he said. "A long, long time. Why I remember the first time John Harvard threw a Pilgrim out on top of me. Hurt like hell. But what happened here this afternoon, now that takes the cake...
HANA members also participated in a demonstration Tuesday outside of the Prudential Building, where Boston Edison stockholders met to discuss financing the construction of the proposed $1.6 billion Pilgrim II reactor, Wisner said yesterday...