… * as- + * lik SUPPLE ot"E 4r 1114 Mark Twain (Continued from page six) tedious. The mask didn't always fit; Clemens outgrew parts of his creat- ed character, married, started a family, entered a wide variety of business enterprises, and developed refined and expensive tastes under the influence of his new surround- ings. The conflicts between Mr. Cle- mens and Mark Twain, so runs Mr. Kaplan's thesis, enable us to under- stand the last...…
…S. 4 .4 4 + ,fit -4 .fir * A- Cloud of Dust and a Hearty "Sieg Heil" PAPERBACK PLAYBAC Hell's Angels, by Hunter S. Thomp- son. Random House. $4.95. Modern Day Huns on high- powered motorcycles, they rape and pillage their way through Califor- nia. No better than animals, they have no regard for those sacred in- stitutions of showers and deodorant. These are only a few of the notions associated with the Hell's Angels.. Now at last some...…
… 4 111-I* + 0 o v wA L Outside the In' ;oniinued from page four) ing itself. And when that happens, "we are yielding to an irrational- ism; we are committing an error against which the intellectual histo- ry of our century should certainly have warned us. Itsideological ex- pression is fascism; its practical consequence the Final Solution." Alternatively, the novel must not move so far away from form that it cannot communicate: "As soon as...…
…4 4 I * 4 Outside the "In' Mu51C from Inside Out, by Ned Rorem. George Braziller. $4.00. The Sense of an Ending, by Frank Kermode. Oxford University Press. $5.75. Ned Rorem made the best-seller lists a few months ago with his Par- is Diary, a book widely admired for its candor-which is to say Rorem did not hesitate to reveal his sexual virtuosity. It was a non-book, though interesting for its gossip and for Rorem's presentation of himself as...…
…f y 4- * 4 + * 4 I _._ . .. '* * 1 Puerto Rican Poverty (Continued from page seven) the individual has a profound feel- ing of "marginality, helplessness, dependence and inferiority." The institutions and values of the cul- ture of poverty are consequently re- sponses both to economic depriva- tion and to this sense of alienation and frustration. Lewis's theory is particularly interesting because it claims that, in any industrial or ...…
…4 * * * °; - A if / -4- n r uw "S - t i t i Waa f f X r 4 f 1 { f 1 y r Arts & Letters Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography, by Justin Kaplan. Simon and Schuster. $7.95. A new biography of Mark Twain has every right to be one of the decade's truly substantial publishing events. The revival of interest in Twain has never been higher; there is a crying need for a really top-flight biography; enough of the laborious ground work h...…
