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...says in the introduction to The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, an unfinished reworking of Malory posthumously published by his wife and his editor, Chase Horton. "My purpose will be to put it into a language which is understandable and acceptable to a modern-day reader, Steinbeck wrote to Elizabeth Otis, his literary agent. "The work applications in the present day and roots in our libing literature...
...together so smoothly, one cannot avoid suspecting her of manipulating information. I suppose I would have felt this less if some distinctly anti-male sentiments didn't frequently creep into the book, affording an almost universally negative impression of men. In many ways, Hite seems overly anxious for the reader to accept that men are continually boorish, selfish, uninspired and non-emotional...
Burgess manages to tie all the sprawling strands together in the last few chapters of the novel; by then, however, the aimless nature of the book has defeated the reader. Burgess' merry-go-round theory--keep the plot moving, change the characters--leaves Beard's Roman Women without much in the way of continuity except the grinning Grim Reaper...
Weinstein: For a historian it presents a problem I have no easy solution to--I know if I were a reader who had not done any work on the case and was told that Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover said one thing and Alger Hiss, or Defendant X, said another, I think instinctively perhaps my own attitude would be to be very skeptical about the accusations against Defendant X until I had proof to the contrary. For Mr. Nixon Alger Hiss remained a vital symbol throughout his public career. I think he probably dreamed about the Hiss case...
...passing that matriarchy would accomplish only cosmetic reform of patriarchy, but in a footnote she terms unacceptable the other commonly discussed alternative, androgeny. The only hope, she remarks offhandedly, is post-androgeny--and what that is or how it differs from androgeny remains a gussing game for the reader...