Word: protean
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...finished Leafstorm. He has acknowledged that reading Faulkner and making a pilgrimage through Yoknapatawpha country helped him to enrich his own private literary property and see its mythic possibilities. At any rate he developed from a cautious, limited craftsman into a prodigal fabulist with total command in his protean imagination...
...establishing our Behavior section three years ago. As our national Behavior correspondent, she has contributed to most of the major stories the section has run. Virginia Adams was also a charter member of the department, first as its researcher, then as its writer. This week's article on protean Psychiatrist Robert Coles is the fifth Behavior cover story on which Galvin and Adams have worked together...
Died. Kenneth Patchen, 60, poet of protean passions; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. Sometimes compared to Whitman and Blake for its visionary quality, Patchen's work since the 1930s has been alternately described as Freudian, surrealistic, Marxist and mystic. Always evident was the poet's abhorrence of violence...
...laughs out of it. The author also displays the greatest comic gift of all, knowing when to end his play before the audience starts to tire of the joke. The actors are all skillful, especially Caroline Denney as Edith Fromage and Roger Mead as Jane's Protean brother...
...That protean public performer, Norman Mailer, 48, shuffled through three two-minute rounds with former Light Heavyweight Champion José Torres on TV's Dick Cavett Show. After Mailer got his breath, Cavett brought up the subject of the brain damage boxers sustain in the ring compared with that of writers at the bar. Mailer was predictably glad to expound from experience. "The brain damage I suffered here just now," he said, "is far less than I suffer after a night of heavy drinking. My brain isn't as good as it was years ago, but I didn...