Word: inhabitations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lonely men walk Malamud's streets, inhabit his cities, kill each other with indifference. Only in the title story is some form of communication accomplished, but it rests in an uneasy truce. A "Rembrandt's Hat" graces the head of a man who wears it "like a crown of failure and hope." Malamud has a gift for fleshing out the lives of conventional failures who provide unconventional wisdoms about hope that lies even in the depths of isolation. Aloneness implies individuality, and it is this that Malamud explores so beautifully in the island-voyage of Rembrandt...
...clearly inapplicable to American society at present with its atomized social structure and schizophrenic life-styles. To read the essays of many of these new conservative writers in conjunction with, say, the entire journalistic opus of Tom Wolfe is to be aware that these conservative writers often inhabit a realm of abstraction penetrated at times by only vague eminences from the real world. Contemporary affluence has unleashed innumerable ego-trips, not the pursuit of virtue. The California electrical worker making $23,000 a year does not read Aristotle and Kant, he merely does weird things and is all too willing...
...Stick. Truzzi and his colleagues have also studied the relationship between customers and concessionaires, including dishonest ones. With the public's growing sophistication, carnivals have had to cut down on cheating. But Truzzi identifies two shady specialists who still inhabit the carnival world. One is the carnie who "works the gaff," a hidden device to keep customers from winning games touted as tests of skill. The other is the "stick," a carnie who passes himself off as a customer to lure marks into playing gaffed games...
...almost too successful literary strategy of simulated monotony. Like the films of his fellow countryman Antonioni, Moravia's near fantasies are surreal studies of boredom at point of hysteria. There is little sense of time or place. Moravia's women seldom have names. They seem to inhabit a kind of limbo, a never land of listlessness. Often they are rich, like the antiheroine of I Haven't Time, who is the seventh-best-dressed woman in the world. But their money buys them nothing they want because they really have no wants they can recognize. That...
...earliest period to his latest bore witness to a mind of astonishingly original genius. In the years between the beginning of the century and World War I, he led modernism through the initial innovations of cubism, and carved out a territory which the painting of today continues to inhabit...