Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EIGHTH DAY by Thornton Wilder. 435 pages. Harper...
...Thornton Wilder's total literary output is small-six novels, four full-length plays. But if it is not a three-foot shelf, it bears witness to an original mind and a remarkable skill-The Skin of Our Teeth, Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey are genuine American classics...
...Wilder has always insisted that he is not a writer but a teacher. He is both, of course. The Eighth Day, his first novel in 18 years, combines his special gift for evoking what is warmly sentimental in the American character with his favorite notions about the universality of human nature. But where Wilder's prose was honed to succinct statements of affirmation in the past, it is now lengthened and pedantic. His lyrical qualities are diffused, his plot ambiguous and his theme labyrinthine...
...Alice then a mere alter ego to Stein? Hemingway implied that Toklas at times henpecked Stein, described her in The Moveable Feast as a "frightening" person who on one occasion said things to Stein that were "too bad to hear"; Alice cordially hated him in return. Actually, as Thornton Wilder tells it, "Alice was merely the dragon protecting the treasure." She had enough intuition to recognize Gertrude Stein's talent and made a life work out of nourishing it. She was not just a factotum for Gertrude. She frequently made changes in Stein's writings, and her brevity...
...Graduate School of Education's annual William H. Burton lecture, Wilder Penfield, professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, described years of experiments which imply that concepts and words are stored in different parts of the brain...