Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says that Tolstoy's aim was to become a Fool of God. Count Leo was, of course, no fool, although many of his truths never got off the ground. His moralizing often seems as windy and endless as the steppes. Had he expounded his ideas about the utility of art earlier in his life, he might never have written his masterpieces of fiction...
Italy, of course, is a favored setting of English and American fiction in which innocents abroad are stirred by art and sensuality. Spencer continues to use the convention effectively. The Cousins, a story in her newest collection, Jack of Diamonds, could be titled Maidenhead Revisited. Ella Mason, 50 and recently widowed, returns to Florence, where she and her hometown cousins from Martinsville, Ala., enjoyed a summer's frolic 30 years ago. One of them, Eric, now lives in Italy, and through a pleating of conversations and memories, Spencer reveals a complexity of attitudes and relationships. Not the least of them...
...fact that he set Bloomsday, the day on which the action of Ulysses takes place, on June 16, 1904, speaks volumes of his need for her. That was the day he first fell in love with her. But while Joyce and his art was changed dramatically by her, she still remained the same humble person she had always been...
ALTHOUGH Barnacle is an intriguing person on her own, she is most fascinating in the way she affects Joyce and his art. His dependence on her--to take care of him, to keep him sexually satisfied and, most importantly, to keep him anchored firmly in reality--comes out clearly in the biography...
...ART: Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Arthur Hochstein, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Billy Powers, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...