Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until Act II that Davies allows the main plot to develop--the rise of Mr. Black and the People's Army and the fall of Flash. Mr. Black capitalizes upon Flash's fall from grace in the public eye to implement his ideal, a kind of brave new world in which all men are artificial robots programmed to run at maximum efficiency. Preservation finds its denouement in Mr. Black's ultimate behaviorial mechanization of Flash, leaving one with many of the same thoughts as did A Clockwork Orange...
...Richardson sketched only an ideogram for his buildings--a tiny undetailed fat-lined freehand drawing that the huge architect would work on from his sickbed. His assistants did the rest, under his careful eye. Richardson's studio was the first important group of architects to work under the atelier system in which even mature architects were subordinate to a single man acknowledged as the single genius of the firm. Other architects--most notably Frank Lloyd Wright--have worked the same...
...grandnephew's own tussles with cynicism and faith. Aldous was a natural-born two-culture man at exactly the time when the wedges of agnosticism and technological specialization had just driven those cultures apart. He would probably have been a scientist like his brother Julian had not an eye infection at age 16 permanently and severely impaired his vision. "I am," he wrote, "to a considerable extent a function of defective eyesight." Yet he managed to function with enormous discipline, teaching himself to read Braille?just in case?and slowly poring over books and paintings with a magnifying glass...
Willwerth is a TIME correspondent and the author of a Viet Nam book, Eye in the Last Storm. He intensifies his work with a sharp eye for the rat sitting boldly in the entrance of a flophouse or the menacing sense of the street he feels on his way to the subway after a late-night interview. He has also made the sensible decision not to deny his own presence; he straightforwardly records the fears, anger and liking he feels for his troubled subject?even after Jones tells him, perhaps in a mood of false boasting, that he has committed...
...English artist and art critic named David Williams visits an old expatriate English painter, Henry Breasley, in his rural French farmhouse. Breasley, living with an old French couple and two young English birds, gets drunk, rants against Picasso and the century's other departures from the world as the eye sees it. Williams, whose wife has stayed behind, almost seduces one of Breasley's "gels." The story until then has the sure, mellow complexity of Mozart?at the end it degenerates into the kind of opera that advertises soap flakes...