Dear Editor
Dear Editor Wolfe and His Readers Nereo Condini's review of Tom Wolfe's Mauve Gloves i? Madmen, Clutter b- Vine, (NL, January 31), while interesting, neglected what has always seemed to me the...
...Arthur Dworin...
...Chicago R. Stern Seconding the Motion I'd like to commend Robert Asahina on his "Boredom in Babylon" (NL, December 20, 1976...
...subsequent events have proved that the Spanish people are indeed ready to involve themselves in politics once more...
...Yet Wolfe is inextricably a part of the world he is describing...
...The same dodos who believe in "funky chic," buy all those silly paintings and espouse the fashionably radical causes Wolfe hates, read him—and for many of the same reasons...
...The liberalization and reform packages of King Juan Carlos and the Suarez government have put the country back on the right track...
...Alex Hamilton Spain Revisited You picked a propitious time to print William Herrick's "How It Is Now . . ," (NL, January 3...
...that fact alone takes some of the patina off his gleaming self-righteousness...
...The most original of the New Journalists is, above all, sharp...
...One expects more from a picture that purports to tell us what "the movies" are all about...
...An author is not, of course, obliged to write with his audience in mind...
...Rather, as Asahina aptly noted, it is the aura of pretentiousness that emanates from the entire film...
...whether in the early '60s or now, none of the contradictions, childishnesses, or excesses of pop culture could ever get by him...
...Everyone seems to be suffering from some mysterious, inexplicable "hurt too deep for words...
...Harold Pinter's vague lines exacerbate the problem, and his infamous and wholly uncinematic pauses make matters even worse...
...Running Irving Weissman's article...
...Tampa, Fla...
...Oneonta, N.Y...
...Still, Wolfe must be aware of the mass success of his books...
...How It Was Then"), alongside Her- ] rick's was a good idea...
...one can live with uninspired performances, an occasional dumb line, minor inconsistencies...
...it is still an open question whether it will remain there or be derailed...
...Dear Editor Wolfe and His Readers Nereo Condini's review of Tom Wolfe's Mauve Gloves i? Madmen, Clutter b- Vine, (NL, January 31), while interesting, neglected what has always seemed to me the essential problem in Wolfe's work—his relation to his audience...
...However, the nature of that involvement?including 10 politically-motivated killings and one kidnapping in a recent six-day period, leading to a sharp curtailment of civil liberties—makes one wonder if they are ready to accept the responsibilities that go along with freedom...
...That the Spanish Civil War is still capable of arousing this kind of feeling is reason enough for another such conflict to be avoided at all costs...
...Besides presenting some undisguised and refreshing emotion, the piece served as a reminder of what a situation like today's can lead to...
...What makes The Last Tycoon particularly exasperating is not its ineptness...
Vol. 60 • February 1977 • No. 4
