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Home from the Hill is notable for its firm evocation of small-town attitudes. Like Faulkner, Humphrey knows that customs, especially Southern customs, are as important as life itself, and that to flout them can mean inviting death. Unlike Faulkner, he can unravel fabrics of suspicion, deceit, envy, love and hatred without getting the strands into a seemingly unmanageable snarl. His fine hunting scenes create a nostalgia for a vanishing side of U.S. life, and the crash of Theron Hunnicutt's ideals marks the passing of a Southern code of conduct. A book that a bit too plainly shows...
Wyeth has won acclaim (TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest tempera, titled Chambered Nautilus,* is a portrait of his mother...
Regarding Reader Lindsey's claim that members of religious orders flout their Creator, let me say that the religious life is indeed not natural. On the contrary, it is supernatural in its very constitution...
...Nehru prepared to begin. The Prime Minister tried to banter with them. "I detect a sort of mild fever here." The chant persisted, so Nehru dug in. "The bilingual state of Bombay will come into being on November 1, and there is no power on earth which can flout the decision of Parliament," said he. From the audience came the roar: "It will not happen!" "You want to bet?" shouted Nehru, his face taut...
...drawing irrigation water from the Jordan River. Israel would make no such pledge. Stymied for days, Hammarskjold finally found a way through. Doubling back to Jerusalem, he made the point to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion: while tapping the Jordan would not be a violation of the armistice, it would flout a 1953 Security Council resolution calling on Israel to cease water diversion. He returned to the Syrians and got them to agree to respect the cease-fire as long as Israel respected Security Council resolutions. Then he wrote a letter simply affirming that all U.N. members are obliged to abide...