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...real event. Kawabata deliberately dissipates the drama of the match by splintering its chronology. His narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns, ending where it began, with the master's death. Commonplace images-a girl on a bridge tossing bread to carp, a long white hair in the master's eyebrow -take on a subliminal life through calm, patient repetition and minute elaboration. There is a kind of low-key daring about such writing: either it exerts a spell or it is nothing...
...rights. The June ID ran a somewhat watery fantasy by Journalist Warren Rogers on the record of President Robert F. Kennedy as he fights for re-election (Gloria Steinem is in the Government, friendship is restored with Havana and Hanoi, but academic critics led by Henry Kissinger carp nonetheless...
...Some 60 new skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when...
...Your Essay entitled "Why Be Afraid of Americans?" [May 15] is a shocking display of your morbid prejudice against Richard Nixon. I believe that if the President succeeded in calling down the Angel Gabriel and effected a settlement satisfactory to all parties, you would still carp...
Coming Up for Air, George Orwell's fictional elegy for a vanished England, includes a celebration of boyhood fishing. The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge." Pike were beyond the boy's reach: "They'd have broken any tackle I possessed...