If the five sides of the pentagon seem impregnable, attack the sixth side.” — Zen proverb Forty years ago, during the U.S. mayhem in Vietnam, one of the first books I taught was Norman Mailer’s autobiographical “nonfiction novel” The Armies of the Night (1968), in part about the massive antiwar demonstration that proceeded from the […]
Daily Archives: November 8, 2009
From James Thurber’s pre-war story, Norman Z. McLeod’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is pleasant enough, with pleasant Danny Kaye, as Mitty, daydreaming himself into an array of heroic and adventurous roles, with a variety of humorous accents, to compensate for a Mom-dominated humdrum life; but when an even more fantastical, and needlessly complicated, […]
Dennis Grunes 