Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper frame of mind. Playwright Frank D. Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) should have been able to manage something sturdier than this weak story, a trifle about a naive and virtuous American screenwriter-snickers begin here -who is called to Paris to rescue a bogged script. This pilgrim, played amiably and unseriously by Wayne Rogers, arrives with a red, white and blue jogging suit, but soon, heartland morality notwithstanding, is taking his exercise indoors with a beautiful English businesswoman (Gayle Hunnicutt...
HERMANN HESSE, PILGRIM OF CRISIS...
Inevitably, the project came under fire, especially during the later years of construction. A religious journal complained that "a pilgrim church cannot spend its time, thought and money on monumental buildings." An anonymous critic painted on an outside wall: "Christ was poor and homeless. Two-thirds of humanity starve...
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...