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...Army and last year became president of Briarcliff, a women's college (300 students) north of New York City. While arresting the school's academic and financial slide, the protean Bunting produced a second novel, The Advent of Frederick Giles...
...writing style oriented towards "authenticity." No doubt the journalists of the period and the "documentary movement" as a whole swelled the ranks of ersatz "roughs" in Kempton's recollection. If he ignored its virtues, Kempton still managed to define in shorthand the characteristic shortcoming of an abundant and protean genre. The typical documentary article or book was rich with feeling and immediacy but usually short-changed thought and discounted analysis...
There would be no state funeral, announced the ruling military junta, which confined itself to a restrained statement of condolence. Nonetheless, Pablo Neruda, the protean Chilean poet and Nobel laureate who died at the age of 69 last week, was given an emotional and stirring farewell...
...material. He never met her. He doesn't even quite have hold of the metaphors in the book. He imagines Marilyn as a Napoleon of publicity who meets her end on a Fifth Helena Brentwood. As a starlet who made it seem easy as "ice cream." As a protean personality of opposites, sentimentality and Grand Bitchiness, soft as lamb's wool and cruel as steel; and finally Mailer has her at her core of sexual power bigger than any man she ever meets. Her movement is towards bigger and bigger fantasy kingdoms, from DiMaggio to Miller to some magical state...
Recovery, given these elements, could have been a tensely structured autobiographical novel, and probably would have been, had not Berryman jumped to his death last year. He was an author of protean energies, focused on but not limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either...