Word: rieff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Sontag lived in books. The most ardent reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just ten days after she met him. The marriage, which lasted seven years, was her first and last. It produced a son, David, now 36, an editor and writer in Manhattan and another of his mother's consuming passions...
...Allman (Miami: City of the Future; Atlantic Monthly Press; 422 pages; $22.50) and David Rieff (Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America; Little, Brown; 230 pages; $16.95) feel less threatened by Miami's possibilities: the former because he finds the city's history, architecture and ethnic mingle fun; the latter because he is distanced by irony...
...there can be no drowning out of the city's predominantly Latin beat. David Rieff, an editor at the New York City publishing house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the son of Critic Susan Sontag, is beguiled by old buildings that were inspired by fantasies of Moorish Spain and are now inhabited by cocaine cowboys from the Caribbean and South America. He forays among Cuban exiles and their U.S.-born children to talk to writers, artists, intellectuals and yuccas (young, up-and-coming Cuban Americans). He is impressed by their energy, ambition and sense of humor. Among the local jokes...
...hard facts with a resonant ring, few can match the one dredged up by Rieff: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot had its U.S. premiere at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in 1956. Quien es Godot? Quien sabe? The play is a masterpiece about waiting and making everything from nothing, a feat, these literary carpetbaggers convince us, that is not uncommon in Miami...