Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed; by growing up we have passed...
...reprinted from the New Yorker in book form, and Salinger, on the dust jacket of the latest offering, Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: an Introduction (1959), promises several more, which will no doubt be well received by the growing Salinger cult. The heroes of the saga, as everyone knows, are or were seven children (two are now dead), the offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...
...goes one version of the story. Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty refused to give a drink of water to a dying man and his crew staged a mutiny. The incident inspired a trilogy of bestselling novels (1932-34) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and a supercolossal saga of the sea (1935) starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch its sea legs again, M-G-M decided to refloat The Bounty. So the wind blew and the fish flew, and by the time...
...From now on, anything we don't like won't happen." In response, aggressive Bill Zeckendorf, who had been keeping in fighting trim by agilely staying one step ahead of his creditors, earnestly promised to indulge in "less shooting from the hip." Longtime students of the Zeckendorf saga wondered just how long Bill Zeckendorf could stay away from grandiose real estate projects...