Word: hermeticism
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Wherever the couple go nowadays, they are watched closely for signs of the state of their union. Time and again during the past year, their four-year- old storybook marriage has been compared with a nighttime soap opera. The plot goes something like this: the House of Windsor, imperturbable on...
The real peculiarity of his figurative style is that it manages to be both precise and ungraspable, for its distortions of face and limb bear little relationship to anything that painters have done to the human body since Cezanne. Forms are governed by slippage: they smear sideways, rotating, not like...
Novels about literary creation are often hermetic, closed like the library stacks of a writer's mind. To gain full access into Joyce, it would be necessary to know exactly the languages and to have read exactly the books he did--to become Joyce, in other words Flaubert's Parrot...
Civil liberties are meager. The "re-education camps" hold some 10,000 prisoners. Says a Vietnamese scholar familiar with postwar Hanoi: "What surprised me was how the society in the North was so isolated from the rest of the world, even from the East bloc countries. It was like Russian...
Suddenly, the young people's games, rivalries and sexual experimentations assume the edge of urgency. Many of them believe that the grownups will never return; the sublime irresponsibility of the Venturas toward everything but their own wealth and pleasures seems headed toward apotheosis. Some cousins hide in fear, others...