Word: reader
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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That Was. With all the eye-rolling horror of an ex-sinner, Booker, 32, looks back on the English scene of the past 15 years or so as a case history in the "collective psychosis" of Neophilia. If the reader can make allowance for the author's own hysterical anti-hysteria, Booker's survey makes a fascinating study of what he regards as a national epidemic of self-deception...
...Commonplace books" were popular in the 18th and 19th century. Habitual readers kept journals by copying out passages from their favorite books and appending their reactions. Auden has been collecting his for much of his life. Quite correctly, he calls it a map of his secret planet. It is arranged in alphabetical order by a fascinating variety of subjects: "World, End of the"; "Owls, Barn"; "Prose, Purple"; "Prose, Annihilating." Under each heading come one or more literary quotations interspersed with Auden's comments. To anyone who has read Auden, the book reveals the sources of his poetry as fully...
...zealous listmaker, he has included long entries of little-known names for woodpeckers and cuckoos and even lesser-known names for the human genitals (17 for the male and a lavish 28 for the female), as well as a wealth of arcane anecdote. Flipping to "Anagrams," for instance, the reader finds the story of a 17th century British eccentric named Eleanor Audley who, having plucked REVEALE O DANIEL out of her name, launched a brilliant career as a clairvoyant. Arrested by a jittery government for predicting the deaths of King Charles I and the Duke of Buckingham, she was reminded...
...volubility of kids with nothing to do and nothing to lose, who also hate America. Think about it. What do they have to lose by going to jail? Or, what does a speed freak really have to lose even by getting killed? Hippie is dead. Everybody knows that except Reader's Digest. But what that means is that kids who just a couple of years ago said Peace and Love Baby and put flowers in soldiers' rifles, now say off the pig and mean...
Rose is in earnest about his good and evil. Taking Alan as his instance, he persuades the reader to see demonology as a metaphor of adolescence. At the turning of the teens, Rose suggests, a child is taken over by conflicting identities-opposing demons fighting for dominance. Furthermore, Rose hints, pointing at the papas and mamas, the middle-aged American, too, is still waiting for a demon to put a blaze in his heart and a fever in his imagination and lead him through some mind-blowing rites of passage...