Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LOST COUNTRY (599 pp.)-J. R. Salamanca-Simon & Schuster...
...corn pone and hominy grits: "Look, Betty Lee, it i'n't goin' to be like this all the time. It won't be too long foah we kin git married . . ." But when Jim gets around to long thoughts about the landscape, Author Salamanca puts down these words about a summer storm: "It gets gray and cool and then the wind comes gusty from the mountains . . . and the tossing trees in the wind are like oceans with little silver fish slipping through the tops of the waves...
This odd contrast of styles has a crippling effect on Salamanca's torrential first novel, which carries Jim Blackstarr from his fourth to his 17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...
...sort of Thomas Wolfe cub, Author Salamanca, 34, has the Wolfeian flaws of logorrhea, overintensity and repetition. But he has some of the Wolfeian virtues as well: his characters-Christian and Uncle Rolfe and the rest-come thunderously alive; he can tumultously evoke the rites of spring; he is equally sure in dealing with the frenzies of a crazed stallion or the moiling mind of an adolescent. What is needed is an editor...
Patronage & Chuckles. From Batavia to Salamanca to Jamestown, Nelson Rockefeller's polished performance was a crowd pleaser that any practicing politician would have envied. Yet: 1) Rockefeller is a tyro at the game, 2) his background scarcely schooled him for hula hooping and beanie balancing. For Nelson Rockefeller is the grandson of the greatest tycoon of them all, the second son of the nation's most generous and most retiring philanthropist. He is a man who is a Croesus in his own right ($100 million, give or take a million), a man who in 30 years has counseled...