Word: fragmentism
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...easy engagement to win. The seven-hour whole of Henry IV is a magnificent but multiform, a spacious but sprawling stage piece. Large as it is, even the two-part play is a rounded fragment of something larger-of that turbulent pageant of ambition and treachery, of glory and vainglory, known as Shakespeare's chronicle plays. Even that greatest asset of Henry IV-the bestriding presence of Falstaff-remains a possible peril, for it requires notable performing to do him justice...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...
There are a few exceptions: ". . . documentaries, which have . . . only very limited opportunities to distort life; frank melodramas, which have nothing to do with life . . . and the occasional pictures, one or two a year at most, which defiantly photograph some recognizable fragment of our common experience and generally lose a good deal of money...
Died. Commodore Dixie ("Indestructible Man") Kiefer, 49, barrel-chested, battered carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup...
Long's son, Richard, quit his job in a grocery to preach: "Repent ye and be baptized for the appointed day is near at hand." This got only 25 converts. Determined to save what fragment he could, Long got the 50 members of his church together for fasting, singing and praying, finally announced, "We are ready...