Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message" in the Ring cycle, and many students take on a muzzy, Middle-earth look when they try to explain its appeal. To some, it is a poetic portrayal of the times, with Sauron and his destructive threat seen as an analogy to atomic war. For others, the Frodo saga represents a way to escape the mundane realities of life. "I'd like to live in the hobbit world because this world is so foul," says Marilyn Nulman, who works at the Harvard bookstore. Another enthusiast likes the Rings' old-fashioned moral simplicity: "You cheer the hero...
...truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor of The New Yorker, conducts his unhappy murderer-lieutenant to a surprise ending. But it is about the only surprise in this otherwise pat and overseemly saga...
Auberon Waugh is the son of the late Evelyn Waugh and a facile satirist in his own right (The Foxglove Saga, Path of Dalliance). The hero of Violets is an epicene idealist who ghostwrites advice columns for a woman's magazine and comforts his faltering ego in a spare-time campaign for world peace. He also campaigns to seduce the white mistress of a Negro extremist, but before he can succeed, he meanders his motorcycle euphorically, and fatally, into the path of a passing automobile. So much, says Author Auberon, for epicene idealists. He has obviously inherited his father...
...Mike Kirchner, 12, and his brothers Jeff, 10, and Fritz, 9-honed their gritty style singing for coins on the beach at Venice, Calif., recently landed a recording and five-picture contract with Warner Bros. They are already TV veterans, are now shooting their first film Methuselah Jones, the saga of a sub-teen preacher who sings all his sermons...
...tough-talking hombre with a shock of silver-white hair and a mustache to match, Bill McGaw, 51, does not usually concern himself with current events. He likes to roam the West, tracking down such legends as the saga of the one-woman bawdyhouse in Columbus, N. Mex. Along the way he collects Western relics, including the stagecoach that may have carried President Polk to his inauguration. In July 1963 he learned that the New Mexico Press Association had held a dinner in honor of defeated' California Congressman John Rousselot, who is presently the public relations director...