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That a half-century of American literary studies could be recalled for a defective platitude is a contingency that would appeal to Playwright Eugene Ionesco. A major contributor to the theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Talk Writers At Work | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

The idea that landscapes like this are fantasies, mere projections of psychosis on the mundane, is wrong and does no justice to Van Gogh's exquisite sense of reality. The matter is more complicated than that. It is true that Van Gogh applied the formal system he preferred to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

To watch him shifting gears in the portrait of the elderly head attendant of the asylum, Charles-Elzeard Trabuc, is to receive a vivid lesson in the adjustment of manner to motif. Trabuc's cotton jacket, with its emphatic parallel stripes of blackish-blue, is as explicitly stylized as anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Something analogous occurs in Drrdla. While working in his basement, a man discovers an almost starved and totally feral cat. Saving and taming the creature becomes first his project and then his obsession: "What it all came down to, in Walter's opinion, was the emergence of life from darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rising Cost of Living Collected Stories, 1948-1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Lastly, when commenting on whether Blacks will be hurt by company withdrawals his answer is "maybe yes." The real answer is definitely yes, and it is already happening. With each withdrawal it is Black, unskilled labor that must be cut to retain profitability, worsening the astronomic 25 percent unemployment rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Response to Mendelsohn | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

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