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VANITY OF DULUOZ, by Jack Kerouac. Still another in the seemingly endless run of the ex-beat prophet's autobiographical novels. Few writers have asked their mem ory to speak more often, and the wonder is that Kerouac's replies are still fresh...
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...Although one cannot yet be sure of Galbraith's role as a critic, he seems to have proved himself as a prophet: "A picture on the cover of TIME magazine, as any perceptive recipient of the honor must know, is taken by a large number of people to mean that the individual is henceforth much more in need of expert criticism than applause." (From his book The Liberal Hour...
...apostles of Malcolm X made their prophet's own speeches seem restrained by comparison. In New York City's Harlem, nearly 600 people packed an ultramodern public school building to celebrate a program attended by Malcolm's widow. Also on hand: Writers James Baldwin and LeRoi Jones, and Herman B. Ferguson, a former New York school official who faces conspiracy charges in a plot to murder moderate Negroes. Baldwin capped the program by calling the U.S. "the Fourth
Steinberg knows enough about the characters of the Bible to put them down with learned insight. Joshua, he says, was "the first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls...