Word: popguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those late-at-night talkathons in Havana, and Fidel Castro sat toying with a popgun that shot pingpong balls. "We are the only judge of what is right for our defense," he told the visiting reporter. "I said this to Mikoyan when he was sent by Khrushchev." Castro laughed, and added: "If Khrushchev had come himself. I would have punched...
There are a few other blemishes, mostly in the matter of judgement. The extended burlesque of Bette Davis at the start of the play and the later use of a toy popgun are both funny of themselves, but they cheapen the play unnecessarily. When one is trying to operate at a high level, one ought to deny himself--no matter how reluctantly--even the best of a low level. Not that I would proscribe all comedy in this play; there is much, and most of it is appropriate. And while I should not temper one bit the venom and vitriol...
Faulkner is the greatest American writer of the 20th century. The Bear is considered by some to be the finest piece of American writing since Moby Dick. Beside him, Hemingway was a little boy with a popgun trying to act tough. The article on Faulkner was fine for its length, but in place of publishing a requiem for an American genius, you gave your readers a mild human-interest story about another peculiar Southern writer...