Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TRANSATLANTIC BLUES by Wilfrid Sheed. Dutton; 312 pages...
...nose and a story. But an eight-minute fight cannot be spun out for more than a few chapters, and most of Shadow Box is more or less conventional, and excellent, sports reporting. The chapters on Muhammad Ali are delightful, and Ali is not easy to write about, as Wilfrid Sheed and Norman Mailer have amply proved...
...WILFRID SHEED...
...Wilfrid Sheed is almost certainly the best American reviewer of books. He is also, as he has shown in Max Jamison and People Will Always Be Kind, a novelist of wit and intelligence. When his prose has erred, it has always been on the side of elegance; he has never been known to write a bad or foolish line...
George Santayana, that New England Spaniard, was such an outside-insider. So is Wilfrid Sheed, who-to his public's edification and entertainment -cannot make up his mind whether he will sound like an Oxford-trained critic, an Irish pub wit, a defrocked Catholic priest or a simply first-rate novelist. In any role, he is never more than, say, three-quarters American...