Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sprightly Running, by John Wain. In an interim report on himself at 35, British Novelist-Critic Wain provides a witty portrait of his intellectual generation...
...hands who won his spurs in the Shanghai tong wars, and as a charter member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terror, Revenge and Extortion) he is almost a match for James Bond. His island off Jamaica is well appointed with hatchetmen, a nuclear reactor and Goya's missing portrait of the Duke of Wellington. As agent 007, one of three with the double cipher indicating authority to kill, James Bond is a combination of Sam Spade, Baby Pignatari and Jungle Jim. Sporting with him in Jamaica are the faithful native, the friendly Yank from the C.I.A., and a rainbow...
Wain deals with this in a way that is not aloof, but as if it had been observed by a sympathetic stranger. His family portrait serves as a reminder that all the English puritans were not harried out of the land; some stayed in old England to keep up. generation after generation, a solid but mainly silent opposition to the glories of blood and state. The Wains were pacifists, and the family felt holier-than-thou toward both working class and rulers: they alone were "saved" in a world of wicked madmen. Wain records the effect of this upbringing...
...this a portrait of youthful existence in Italy? It seems unlikely. As a case history, the trials of Enrica are both too relentless and too bizarre to be convincing-even though they are recounted with a grimly detailed, laconic realism that echoes the style of her mentor, Novelist Alberto Moravia...
...this framework, Paul Brodeur blends psychological insight and historic parallel to create a portrait of the alienated man in the nuclear age. Harry Brace is not merely the familiar figure who feels estranged just from his own society. He wants out of the whole organized world...