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...1960s, he turned to narrow, bold, successive rows of vertical stripes. Just before he died, Louis began to stretch and frame his canvases so that the stripes ran diagonally, sprinting tensely upwards, onwards and off at the corners. Mute and vibrant, they hang stiffly like heraldic banners for some brave new world...
Inevitable Break. Potok's confrontation begins when 15-year-old Reuven Malter, brave but bespectacled star of his yeshiva (parochial school) softball team, clashes on the base paths with Danny Saunders, intense, blue-eyed and a sort of Jewish Frank Merriwell. Danny deliberately slams a line drive into Reuven's glasses, Precipitating a 58-page hospital sequence, during which the two boys' enmity grows toward friendship even as the Allies invade France and push out of Saint-L6 toward the Rhine...
...shofar blown by a gentile. Listening to a radio report on the Normandy invasion, Reuven thinks miserably of the "broken vehicles and dead soldiers" on the beaches. No base ball-playing American kid-Jewish or otherwise-thought for a moment of bodies on that glorious day; he imagined brave jut-jawed soldiers in spotless khakis charging through the cringing, craven "Nazzy" lines...
...feature on the new town of Reston, Virginia (March 29th). Miss Shapley incorrectely implied that the picturesque houses-over-shops were quickly sold. Actually, the high rise apartments rented quickly: the houses were slow to move. When so brave an especially urgent that the feed-back be accurate...
...goal is quick results--no compromise. It is better to lose with a brave manifesto never achieved than to secure quiet success buried in ambiguities. There is little endurance. And, if there is defeat, escape into private experiences and fantasies always lies ahead...