Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English 700 exam (back then it was and it deserved to be called 700). We read to each other by the light of a street lamp on the bridge next to the secret plaque marking the spot from which Quentin was said to have jumped. Such dedication to Faulknerian trivia is cute for a sophomore, but it is unproductive for an official biographer...
...three-volume megabiography of Henry James, Leon Edel avoided pedantry and trivia while still painting a detailed picture. Realizing the significance of this achievement, Edel explained his principles in a book called Literary Biography. His conclusions now stand as an apt indictment of Joseph Blotner's eight-and-a-half pound Faulkner: "the writing of a literary life would be nothing but a kind of indecent curiosity, and an invasion of privacy, were it not that it seeks always to illuminate the mysterious and magical process of creation." Blotner fails this test; he does not disengage the essence of Faulkner...
Although the Cardinals give the impression of being a fourth-place team, they do have an upward mobility that neither the Expos nor the Pirates can claim. Although their infield features two names that will be on everybody's trivia quiz--third baseman Kenny Reitz and shortstop Mike Tyson--they are blessed with a few fine Boston refugees, most notably outfielders Reggie Smith and pitchers John Curtis, Lynn McGlothen, Ken Tatum, and Mike Garman. These additions give the Cards a solid outfield (Lou Brock in left, Luiz Melendez in center, and Smith in right) and an equally strong mound corps...
...than they at first appear to be. Sexual obsession, the disintegration of a family, the linkage between love and hate are evident in both. But where the biblical background of Tamar lent grief and madness some heroic grandeur, Jacobson's new book is furnished with the banalities and trivia of contemporary life...
Portrait: The Man from Independence. Robert Vaughn plays the young Harry Truman, putting his life on the line to fight corruption in Missouri. Some trivia: early in his career, Vaughn played an amusing character in a half-hour Hitchcock mystery. His name is A. Dunster Lowell (we all know what the A stands for), better known as the Boston Terrier, criminologist. Relying on the sophisticated gadgetry concocted by his ex-Harvard physics prof (an absentminded old codger), Lowell solves a homicide before the murderer can say U.N.C.L.E. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...