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This is the fourth novel to reach the U.S. by Yasunari Kawabata, the 1968 Nobel laureate who committed suicide last April at the age of 72. American readers may find it the most rarefied so far. Besides displaying Kawabata's customary casualness about plot and characterization, it lacks the...
For American Motors Corp., November has often been the crudest month. That is when the company issues its generally depressing annual earnings report. Last week the usual autumnal gloom was replaced by a bright, if fragile, sense of victory. The company reported earnings of $10.2 million on sales of $1.2...
It is their children, members of a supposedly radical generation, who genuinely hunger for unexperienced past, as if they were hearing some melancholy autumnal horn summoning them through an undiscovered hallway to a place they can search for but can never find. It is as if they felt cheated for...
The horses will return once a year for Munich's 16-day autumnal beer bust, the Oktoberfest. Then, geared in blue velvet and leather harnesses, they will take up their old station in the Gabelsbergerstrasse and trot out daily to the festival grounds with wagons bearing garlanded but empty...
By judicious editing it would be easy to turn Marin into a founding father of Abstract Expressionism, were it not for the inconvenient detail that he viewed all abstract art with crusty disdain. Reality-the flicker of bronze light on autumnal trees, the long profile of a beach in White...