Word: wondrousness
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...Amerika, Kafka's ubiquitous K. figure finds the Statue of Liberty mysteriously illumined, and ends his journey in the wondrous "nature theatre of Oklahoma." According to Biographer Klaus Mann, Kafka, like many armchair immigrants, "imagined that all Americans wore a perpetual smile...
...Lewis. But Jazz Great Gerry Mulligan's attacks on baritone sax are crisp and clean, and Brubeck and Mulligan bob and glide together like Astaire and Rogers doing the Big Apple. For a finale, Mulligan, the three Brubecks and nine assorted sidemen are likely to jam for wondrous minutes on something like Mulligan's Tune for an Unfinished Woman...
...accomplishments of bureaucracy affect individuals in wondrous ways -and nowhere more so than in Japan. Consider the case of Herbert Freidman, an American businessman living in Japan. One day last month, he climbed aboard a plane at Tokyo airport and flew off to Okinawa, dutifully surrendering to a customs agent the alien-registration card he carries. His passport was stamped to show that Freidman was leaving the country. According to procedure, his passport would be stamped again when he returned to Tokyo, and he would be issued a new alien-registration card...
...five-and-ten-cent-store Lilith, the mother of Cain, the black widow who is poisonous and eats her mate, and I designate at the bottom of your program the grand finale of all soap operas: the mother of America's Cinderella." It is a mark of the wondrous sea change of public attitudes that in a scant three decades Wylie's castrating bitch has become, in much popular mythology if not in fact, part of the wretched of the earth...
...insights, and the reader's place to appreciate them-well, that is not a bad division of labor. The novelist who follows this course becomes a presence in his own novel. A cinematic kind of novelizing is more fashionable now, in which the page is a movie screen, wondrous but neutral. Jones's writing is less glittery but more personal, very high-level gossip that is fascinating because, like all gossip, it defines the gossipist...