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...camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society that produced them. Cruelly stomping down a child's sand castle, raising hob in a roadhouse, or pairing off at random, they seem little more than anonymous delinquents-the kind of blank, boisterous folk that cause the family trade to gather up their towels and baskets and move to a nice quiet spot at the far end of the beach...
Carefully Pinter scrapes away the aimless talk and blank expressions that coat real feelings. Underneath we discover a galaxy of neurotic horrors: curious inversions of appearances, petrified wills, secret dreads, loneliness, and despair. These interior stresses are just as commonplace as the banalities that overlay them, even though they are revealed in bizarre ways. The pettiness and self-deception begin to seem less an insipid veneer than a shield for sanity...
RAPHAEL SOYER-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. With fine-line shadings and blank areas of light, Soyer brings out the fullness of body and the spiritual vacuity of New York girlhood. Past teen-age but not quite adult, his would-be students and sometime art ist's models display the wistful grace of instinctive, empty gestures. Sixteen etchings. Through...
...greatest thing"--and only caring enough to act will make victory possible. The importance of caring was brought home to me during a sit-in at an expensive motel restaurant. As our group quietly sisted on being served, many of the white patrons gave us an impartial stare. Their blank unconcern was a major reason for our failure, and always will be. Yes, caring is the only thing...
...same blank extends to the whole decade of the '30s. Cheever survived those politically obsessed times but did not live through them. While all his friends gathered themselves into ideological camps. Cheever remained simply a writer whose commitments were to his private moral vision; he was deaf to the whole public hullabaloo about ideologies, from the New Deal to literary