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355 Reviews of The Brigadier and the Golf Widow: n.a. in Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1964, 104–5; Glendy Culligan, in Washington Post, Oct. 16, 1964, A22; Orville Prescott, in New York Times, Oct. 14, 1964, 43; John Aldridge, in New York Herald Tribune Book Week, Oct. 25, 1964, 3, 19.
356 “toothless Thurber”: Irving Howe, in Partisan Review 26 (Winter 1959), 131.
356 “At the [Academy] ceremony”: JC to WM [c. May 1960], Berg.
356 “I seem neither sane enough nor mad enough”: JJC, 191.
357 “letting oneself into a labyrinth”: JC to Litvinov, March 15 [1965].
357 Cheever and Brodkey: JC's quotes about his flirtation with Brodkey are all from the unpublished journal. The New Yorker writer in whom Brodkey confided wishes to remain anonymous; certain others were also privy to such confidences.
358 “[tying] on a can”: JJC, 198–99.
358 “I felt defensive for him”: SD int. Richard Stern, April 23, 1985, Swem.
359 “erudite, bellicose and agile”: LJC, 245.
359 “Mary flew back on Thursday”: GT, 180.
359 “May I join you?”: Mrs. Donald H. Farquharson to SD, Jan. 19, 1985, Swem.
359 “Mother would have been indignant”: JC to WM [c. May 1965], Berg.
359 “I had lunch with Ralph Ellison”: LJC, 243.
360 “I am very fond of Ralph”: JC to Warren, Jan. 12 [1963], Yale.
360 Cheever awoke feeling “crushed”: GT, 181–82.
360–361 Vietnam War as a “moral outrage”: “Academy Speech Angers Benton,” Washington Post, May 21, 1965, A18.
361 “chaos that we've made of our promise”: Ellison Papers, LC.
361 “Thank you very much, Ralph”: JC's acceptance remarks, May 19, 1965, Academy.
361 reptile “seemed to possess the world”: JJC, 200.
361 They decided to “get stoned”: GT, 183.
362 “I did everything short of kicking him”: LJC, 249.
362 “banging folding chairs together”: JC to Matthew Bruccoli, May 2 [early 1970s?], Morgan.
362 “[Updike] read extracts from three works”: quoted in OJ, 117.
362 “I am … rude, I think, to John”: this passage was deleted from the second entry on page 200 in the published Journals.
362 “chastening, perhaps edifyingly so”: OJ, 117.
363 prescribed a “massive tranquilizer”: JC to Litvinov [c. Aug. 1965].
364 “People named John and Mary never divorce”: JJC, 204.
365 “threw in the sponge”: WM to SC, n.d., CFP.
365 “I was drinking gin and romping with the dogs”: LJC, 252.
365 characterizing Cheever as “furious”: Wilborn Hampton, “William Maxwell, 91, Author and Legendary Editor, Dies,” New York Times, Aug. 1, 2000, B9.
366 “I look forward to having the book”: JC to WM [c. Jan. 1966], Berg.
367 “the relationship of the novelist”: Richard Stern, “Report from the MLA,” New York Review of Books, Feb. 17, 1966, 26–28.
367 “pleased and excited” by The Naked and the Dead: JJC, 13.
367 “great affectation of bellicosity”: JC to WM [c. May 1960], Berg.
367 “trimmed [his] weight to 138 lbs.”: JC to Stern [c. Dec. 1965], Chicago.
367 “Well, you've got to find him!”: SD int. Robert F. Lucid, April 2, 1985, Swem.
368 “when he was busily trying to describe”: draft of Cheever's MLA remarks, Berg.
368 Mailer was “pissed”: SD int. Norman Mailer, March 29, 1985, Swem.
368 “There has been a war”: Norman Mailer, Cannibals and Christians (New York: Dial Press, 1966), 95.
369 “young women wearing nothing”: JC to WM [c. Jan. 1966], Berg.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN {1966}
371 “electrifying conversationalists”: Betsy Brown, “The Friday Club, A Cheever Salon,” New York Times, June 27, 1982, sec. 11, pp. 1, 8.
372 “John called early this am”: Spear to Litvinov, July 12, 1968, courtesy of Pamela Spear Goff.
372 “[John] is in good shape”: Spear to Litvinov, April 23, 1974, ibid.
372 “I was dozing in a chair”: author int. Raphael Rudnik, Aug. 26, 2004.
373 “glued to the television”: author int. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Natalie Robins, Aug. 15, 2004.
375 “A man named Exley wrote”: GT, 187.
375 “Coming in late last night”: LJC, 247.
375 “tone or volume of my father's farts”: ibid., 20.
375 “If my note to you seemed cursory”: JC to Exley, Oct. 4 [1965], Rochester.