Word: everydayness
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...your fans in the heartland are looking for. But there's much more to it than shelving the riding breeches and slamming the door on the California Kitchen Cabinet for a few weeks. The nation identifies with a fella who un tucks his shirt and enjoys a Budweiser--your everyday Average Joe. We will have your name changed...
...first Americans allowed into Hiroshima after the Bomb; he left the flattened city with an infant Japanese boy whom he had delivered and an incurable case of moral numbness. His wife Anna tells him that "what you saw there became your definition of suffering. And mere human, everyday suffering means nothing to you." She knows that he is sleeping with a young native girl, and this knowledge undermines her already unsteady self-confidence. She leans emotionally on her daughter Lily ("my old sweetheart"); the twelve-year-old girl must learn to inject Anna with drugs, care for her younger brother...
...Human kind cannot bear very much reality," T.S. Eliot observed. Evidently, neither can many prominent novelists. An increasing number are now in flight from the everyday world they used to chronicle. In his latest novel, God's Grace, Bernard Malamud conceived of a latter-day Noah, adrift on an ark. Doris Lessing has taken an apparently irreversible leap into outer space with her multivolume chronicle of "galactic empires." Now Joyce Carol Oates has again wandered off into the never-never land of the neo-gothic romance. In Oates' case, the purpose of the excursion is parody. A Bloodsmoor...
...going is tough, which makes it tough to get going, but I have covered many miles since my departure from headquarters. Fortunately, I have found food (and not just your everyday halibut cheese C-rations), water and shelter, and the natives are certainly friendly...
...spite of its moments of high comedy, this is the most sobering and illuminating book to be written about Soviet society in decades. Nothing else in print gives so persuasive a picture of moral squalor in everyday life. It is an insider's book, written by a keen observer with special access to legal records and 17 years of experience as a defense attorney and professor of law. Indeed, so great is Simis' expertise that in 1976 KGB men raided his apartment and confiscated an early manuscript version of the book. He was obliged to leave the Soviet...