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Bunting countered His remark by saying. "I've always been fond of kind brothers, although I'm not too sure about the kin part in this case...
...first book, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TIME, March 2, 1970), John Seelye rewrote Mark Twain as an answer to nearly a century of carping critics. In The Kid, he makes American folklore and literary archetypes jump through hoops, in obvious appreciation of Leslie Fiedler's remark that "to understand the West as somehow a joke comes a little closer to getting it straight...
Soon after McCall's remark, Cambridge Councilwoman Saundra Graham took the floor and began to ask more embarrassing questions...
...before. These include congratulations at marriage, commiseration at divorce and condolences at death. Similar "reassurance displays" are also made on less momentous occasions. A teenager's friends will overreact to her new shoes: "Oh, let's see them. Oh, they're cute." In conversation, a remark from a bore, no matter how stupefying, may force his companions "to give a sign that he is qualified to speak." A good thing too, says Goffman, for "without such mercies, unsatisfactory persons would bleed to death from the conversational savageries performed on them...
...Since I wrote that sentence Jones's stock has gone down whereas Mailer's has risen. I think that considering Mailer's position at the time it is an apt enough remark. I think Mailer's subsequent career as far as I've kept up with it is a kind of self-resurrection to be admired. I do admire--not without reservation--Armies of the Night: there's a shrillness, and a willingness to accept your personal experience as an artist as metaphor for national experience...