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...shocked to the very core of my being by your review of Mr. Amos Queensly's novel The Section Man. I believe that Mr. Queensly has written a book that is deliberately meant to offend the sensibility of the reader. I would like to take issue with the wisdom of bringing this book to the attention of the Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduate. It is particularly shocking that your reviewer should quote with approval the sentiments of that...Norman Mailer. Any casual observer who walks through the Square has an opportunity to observe the loose morals and easy ways prevalent among...
...Your article on Marilyn Monroe," read the letter to Columnist Al Ricketts of the Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, "was just plain lousy, unfair, unjust, un-100% red-blooded American, and nuts to you." The reader's gorge had risen over an unchivalrous evaluation of the film actress in Ricketts' column "On the Town": "There are gals in Hollywood who have more sex appeal in their eyelashes than Marilyn can cram into a gownless evening strap. They can also deliver dialogue without sounding like their mouths are full of Purina...
Early in the book, for example, the reader meets a pubescent lad who talks Elizabethan. Asked when his parents will return from the movies, he replies: "Not till the witching hour methinks, or worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...
...friend has been shaken, and by book's end he knows an old truth but one not easily come by: that people know about others only what is comfortable to know. The "real Silvestri'' is another man entirely. This is the way of the world, the reader is apt to say, and it will happen again tomorrow. But it will take a writer of Soldati's talent to tell it again as well as it is told here...
...Reader's Guide to Literary Terms, by Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz. With scholarship and scholars' wit, the authors offer all one cares to know and possibly a bit more about Anacreontic, Transferred Epithets, Inscape, Parnassianism, Pastorals, Passion Plays or Pastiche...