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Richard Yates is a good but doleful writer who once, titled a short-story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. The stories were first-rate, but the title showed a kind of perverse bravado: You think you're miserable? Listen, I know more kinds of loneliness ... Well, he did and he does, and he adds a couple to the list in this impeccably written but rather dispirited novel of life at a mediocre Connecticut boys' school...
...generosity in praising the National Gallery's new East Building [May 8] is far too restrained. It's an achievement in land use, light play and mass as visceral as the pyramids. Thank God this country has a Cheops like Paul Mellon to allow us the esthetic bravado of the likes...
...money to the symphony-were thwarted. Still refusing to be satisfied as the prince of pornography, Thevis bought one of the finest recording studios in the South and tried his touch out on Hollywood's biggest pinball machine-the movie business. Tilt, game over; score no points for bravado. Mike Thevis got no respect...
When it is race time, the jockeys stride out of the locker room, most flicking their whips with bravado. Cauthen goes calmly. Decked out in the splashing silks of his trade, he seems terribly young, frail, unknowing?until you look at his eyes, when those eyes are examining a horse he is about to ride. Then there is an eerie, almost existential quality to his face, an absorption so total that his life becomes encompassed by it. For the twelve minutes required to mount, parade to the post and, finally, run the race, the ride is Steve Cauthen...
...discovery of the real New World came soon after, with a triumphant debut at Carnegie Hall in 1920. He liked the praise, the skyscrapers, a certain "bravado and toughness" about Americans. He decided to stay. Almost immediately, his misfortunes began. Critics had second thoughts. He lost a legal wrangle with his manager over fees, and was blacklisted by the musical fraternity. Then his marriage - in 1926 to a woman eleven years older, who had promised to re-establish his career - blew...