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...subject of her childhood, Miss Giovanni is magical. She meanders along with every appearance of artlessness, but one might as well say that Mark Twain wrote shaggy-dog stories. The little figure in the center-"big, brown eyes, three pigtails and high-top shoes"-is a classic American child, pelting rocks at her enemies from the roof, lining up for all-day movies, eating her liverwurst on raisin bread with mayonnaise...
...time stops. And Disneyland also gives expression to Mircea Eliade's concept of illo tempore, a timeless realm in which the primary acts of reality are acted out continuously. And finally, the five dollar ticket entitles the decent citizen to enter the realms of American Jungian archetypes--the Mark Twain, Mainstreet USA, Tomorrowland, Pluto, Goofy, Abraham Lincoln--all implanted in the unconscious of all the wonderful public willing to pay to see that archetype over there...
...Wodehouse has reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust-jacket photograph shows Mr. Wodehouse touching his toes without bending his knees--something I have yet to be able to do. He is a remarkable...
Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor. Who should pop in but the divorced head of the moving firm? Figure out what happens when the lonely twain meet...
Women's Lib has produced literary heat, but no warmth-and little humanity. The very person to redress this balance turns out to be no hot-panting tractarian, but rueful Novelist Peter De Vries, who, like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain, has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humor is not to be taken seriously. De Vries is the most domestic of writers. Except for his masterpiece, The Blood of the Lamb, his literary charades more or less cheerfully present a more or less repetitive series of matrimonial alarums and excursions. The De Vries...