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Every year, some fantasist in the Marine Corps dreams up a scenario like this for the start of training maneuvers at Twentynine Palms, the 932-square-mile Marine base in the Mojave Desert. This year things are a little different. The war in Viet Nam is over, and the Marines must think about where they might be called next-and would they be ready for battle in the Middle East? The Marines are also having trouble meeting their recruitment quotas, so they need to know how their reservists might function in combat. Nine thousand Marines took part last week...
Labels as diverse as fantasist, caricaturist, romantic and symbolist have been applied to Malamud, but he laughs at these terms and suggests: "tragico-comico, realistico-fabulistico; the more the merrier!" As for the themes often singled out in his stories--defeated love and failed ambition, imprisoned souls and claustrophobic lives, spiritual rebirth and redemptive suffering--he asserts that these are universal, and are there for anyone who wants to find them. "Not everything I put in consciously is noted, and people find things in my work I never knew were there. I try not to interpret my works to others...
Baldwin the complex artist too of ten succumbs to Baldwin the propagandist and fantasist. When he calls America the Fourth Reich, he sounds as if fascism were a completed fact rather than a terrifying possibility. And when he speaks of "Martin" or "Malcolm," there is a touch of envy in his reverence. It is almost as if Baldwin would rather break the apron strings of his beautiful prose style and become a martyr himself. · R.Z.S...
...skilled, serious and powerful novel in 1971. This year, though, most of the customary groans and hisses were reserved for the slenderest and the newest categories. One judge, Lore Segal, a writer of juveniles, filed a solid minority objection when the children's book prize went to Fantasist Donald Barthelme for his arch and static The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering, Thithering Djinn...
...place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo, the Apache warrior who lived by his own laws. By the time Hannah's rascally hero moves on from Elvis Presley to the murder of Medgar Evers, he has gone the route from private inrage...