Word: sauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HUMBOLDT'S GIFT by Saul Bellow. An obscure old poet dies and his onetime protege suffers in this seriocomic meditation by a major American writer on the value of art and the price of success...
...great poems, Wallace Stevens speaks of "musing the obscure." That phrase seems to be the unspoken motto of the Swedish Academy. Last week it again passed over such notables as Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene and Saul Bellow to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Eugenic Montale, 79, an Italian poet virtually unknown to the public outside his native land...
Here are Peter Arno's ageless chorines and satyrs; Helen Hokinson's gaggle of club women; Saul Steinberg's pun-and-ink illuminations; the Thurber people who always reminded Dorothy Parker of unbaked cookies. Here, too, is the ir repressible new generation of arche types: George Booth's slatternly couples-obviously the illegitimate descendants of George Price's cluttered screwballs; Lee Lorenz' literate animals, minerals and vegetables; and Ed Koren's celebrated shaggy people stories...
...Kennedy, urban disorder, student rebellion and widespread social tumult, public servants and assorted experts furiously, and inconclusively, debated the role of television in feeding violence. This time, however, the controversy has centered more on newsmagazines. In last Wednesday's New York Times, Columnist William V. Shannon, Novelist Saul Bellow and Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz separately lambasted TIME and Newsweek for putting Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme on their covers. In Washington, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott asked rhetorically: "Do cover stories in national newsmagazines incite to violence...
...time when many writers are turning to impressionistic journalism and innovative fantasy, 60-year-old Saul Bellow still confronts America's baffling ocean of desires and sorrows with old-fashioned characters and a Tolstoyan appetite for presenting big ideas as if they were messages from a philosophical sponsor. In short, Bellow is self-consciously a Serious Writer, especially during those frequent moments when he is being genuinely humorous...