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...doesn't always choose. He also happens to be Britain's most revered abstractionist. For conservatives, there's the rub. In a book on Nicholson newly published in England, Art Critic Herbert Read rubs it in. You can't admire the still lifes and abhor the abstractions, admonishes Read, "without confessing to a prejudice that has nothing to do with the essential qualities...
...religion must criss-cross over morality, State and Church both abhor and forbid murder, bigamy, and swindling; this is a natural, not a sinister, connection...
Portraits Forgotten. Late in life, he tried to change. "No more paughtraits," he once wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them, and hope never to do another especially of the Upper Classes." During World War I, he trundled off to try his hand at battle scenes ("I suppose there is no fighting on Sundays," he remarked to a general at the front). He tried landscapes, character sketches ("a lot of mugs in ... charcoal") and watercolors which he scornfully labeled "Triple Bosh," "Blokes," "Idiots of the Mountains," "Intertwingles." But they were never enough to free...
...something set in motion by the hand of God; he found peace in rooms whose lack of furniture ("movables") gave spacious tranquillity to his austere thoughts. His dinner table was set up on a trestle, promptly removed when he had eaten. Since that time, man has come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks of "setting the table," but in fact his furniture is almost as stable as the four walls which surround it, and much more important. Where once the human hand created the bare minimum, the machine now creates the dressy maximum...
Violence broke out in India anew after Gandhi's death. Fifty were reported killed as-Gandhi admirers exacted a blood price from the Mahasabha extremists. Some dared to hope that Gandhi's injunction to abhor violence might take on added force from his martyrdom...