Word: poundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future is framed in political terms, no one better understands the sexual division of labor than John Irving. His first three novels are Setting Free the Bears. The WaterMethod Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage. They went nowhere, but they are being re-issued in paperback. It seems that this book was written for much the same reason that Faulkner sensationalized Sanctuary--after three, the author begins to wonder where the fame and fortune are. But underneath the sensationalism and violence there is a very good book. The best of 1978. We're landing, and who knows where...
With the easy wisdom of hindsight, it is simple enough to cast the young Perkins as the great innovator; and yet, Perkins did not completely share the enthusiasm of writers like Hemingway and Pound for building all literature anew. Perkins, above all, was searching for what Fitzgerald called "the real thing," for Max clung to no dogmatic view of literature and asked only for writing that would vicariously bring readers a little closer to real life...
...news conference that congressional passage at long last of his battered energy legislation should trim the U.S. trade deficit and bolster the dollar. Next day the dollar hit yet another record low against the deutsche mark, dropped against the Swiss and French francs, the Dutch guilder and the British pound, and even sank to a 31-month low against the weak Italian lira. The apparent reason: moneymen concluded that if this is all the hope Carter has to offer, the dollar is still in trouble. Confidence in the dollar has so eroded that it sometimes plunges sharply these days with...
Year award, she "just busted the front" of a new dress made for the occasion. Oh, well, shrugged Dolly: "I guess it's like my Daddy said. You shouldn't try to put 50 pounds of mud in a five-pound sack...
Although he is often harsh on him self, Spender seems to have been less consistently wrong than fairminded. He was generous in praise of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, whose work had political leanings alien to his own: "The reactionaries never thought that they should put their art at the service of the ideology of the authoritarian fascistic leaders, in the way that many leftists thought that they should put theirs at the service of Marxism and of the political bureaux which laid down the Communist Party lines...