Word: criticals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warring elements of the race to humanize itself." She turns to passion and hope as a means to this end. The Romance of American Communism lacks coherence, though, because of its purgative function for the author. Gornick cannot overcome the contradictions inherent in her dual role as an intellectual critic and a sentimental admirer. For despite her ideological opposition to American Communism as she has known it, she remains an emotional fellow traveler...
...want them walking around in my painting." Because of the extreme, not to say polemical, purity of his obsessions, Stella's work seemed exemplary. No young artist's oeuvre had ever been so exhaustively discussed, or used to support such a variety of critical positions. As a result, when enthusiasm for " '60s-style" abstraction started waning at the end of the '60s, Stella's prestige began to falter. What happened to him when he began to move out of the "reductionist" aesthetic that his work had done so much to create? "Stella Since...
...Scott and Ernest, "a documentary reconstruction of their friendship and estrangement," Matthew Bruccoli suggests it was Hemingway who had his nose pressed up against the glass. "I am getting to know the rich." Hemingway told Max Perkins and Critic Mary Colum at lunch. And it was Colum who replied, "The only difference between the rich and the other people is that the rich have more money." Making Fitzgerald the victim of this putdown, says Bruccoli, was one of several instances when Hemingway adjusted embarrassing truths to preserve his image...
...seemed to appreciate the extent to which the invasion of Lebanon may have damaged the peace process. "Sadat is unpredictable," said one foreign ministry official. "How can you tell how he will react?" Practically without exception, Israelis approved of the military action. Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who has bitterly criticized Menachem Begin's handling of the peace negotiations in the past, said he thought the government had done the only thing it could in response to the terrorist raid. Another Begin critic, former Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, concluded that the invasion took place ''at the right time, in the right...
...Lucian's works, including five oils of his mother Lucie, 82, will open in New York City's Davis & Long gallery on April 4. "My work is purely autobiographical. I work from people that interest me," explains Lucian, 55. The exhibit psyched up a London Sunday Times critic. "You can call it odd or art," he wrote after seeing Mom framed in a variety of poses. Among them (but of course): Lucie reclining on a couch...