Word: trillins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER by Calvin Trillin. 98 pages. Viking...
...Rosalie attends, "where whites gathered to be castigated by some prominent Negro." Says Barnett: "I can't understand it. I don't like to blow my own horn, but I do think I'm as guilty as anybody." As the anti-anti-anti-hero of Calvin Trillin's collection of short, softly hilarious, episodic New Yorkerish misadventures, Barnett jousts for Rosalie's attention in the culture jungle of the great city, raising a series of rumpled expectations all doomed to failure...
...White House Staff vs. The Cabinet"; a piece by Kempton on the Teacher Corps; a story about how Congress favors building SST's and not smogless cars (i.e., your basic air-pollution priority story); a short unfunny piece on what happens after marijuana is legalized in 1989 by Calvin Trillin of the New Yorker; something about Republicans by Stephen Hess, Moynihan's assistant; a piece on statistics; a story called "The Culture of Bureaucracy: The Special Assistant" by Baker and Peters themselves; a piece on how legislators never do any legislating by James Boyd, the administrative assistant...
...Trillin speaks with a low and calm voice; he is not writing about an abstract Negro on a magazine cover who stands firmly, muscles taut, eyes forward. Underneath the placid prose is another figure, the intelligent Southern Negro, who, unlike his contemporaries from the North, cannot go home to Boston, New York, or Springfield after his year of working in the South is over...
...tense, but she was never able to establish friendships. Discouraged at the inability of Negroes to raise funds for her scholarship and dismayed at the bickering over who was the better integrationist, she or Hamilton, Charlayne finally began to feel detached from both whites and Negroes. As she told Trillin...