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...SPLENDID PAUPER by Allen Andrews. 256 pages. Lippincott...
...them know we are coming? Send them the postcard that comes with the cutouts in the album. How do we get there? Meet a maid Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock (Valentine's Day was on a Wednesday). She takes you there by boat, train, and taxi. "A splendid time is guaranteed...
...remarkably competent human being. He programmed his pity for the poor. He was fierce. He could be rude. He shared the family conviction that the Kennedys, if not born, had at least been bred to rule. And he attracted the adulation and the rage which his clan, with their splendid, doomed lives, aroused in a nation that had never seen such a compelling collection of human beings, so beautiful, armored, and so vulnerable...
There are many splendid absurdities in Dan Wakefield's book, as well as horrors, ironies, incongruities, hypocrisies and examples of pathological normality. All were lovingly culled by Wakefield, a freelance journalist, during a four-month discovery tour of the state of the nation, or supernation, as he archly calls...
Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...