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Publishing this little work (or opusculum, as Burgess calls it) 20 years after he wrote it and six years after it came out in England, the author also issues a fair warning. The Eve of Saint Venus, he says, "depends for its effect largely on an understanding of the insular and conservative English character, especially as manifested in a silly, ingrown, mainly nonexistent rural aristocracy...
What they usually is that Mahler's music is flawed by self-parody and sentimentality. But the cry of self-parody is usually only disguised condescension, and the accusation of sentimentality is humorous in how it reveals the insular bathos of the critic. Mahler's art was really a plea for intensity, and compellingly recalls a similar plea by T.S. Eliot...
...initial election round April 1, fully 74% of the electorate went for Yorty's opponents. Bradley led the field of 14 with 42%, a remarkable showing for a black candidate in a city where Negroes constitute less than one-fifth of the population. But Democrat Bradley is no insular ghetto politician. A lawyer and retired police lieutenant who had bootstrapped himself out of poverty (as youngsters, he and a brother took turns with their single suit), Bradley organized what he called a "coalition of conscience." It included blacks, Mexican-Americans, white liberal Democrats and independents. After the April round...
...that people are choosing to lead more and more insular existences rather than wanting to help people help themselves? When I read your article on Newark [March 21], I realized only too well what Mayor Addonizio meant by his statement, "America is not prepared to save its cities." He, as well as I, and many others, is aware that some of the nation's wealthiest white bedroom communities come very close to touching Newark-physically. I grew up in Short Hills, N.J., one of the most elite. And I found that after the rioting those who "have" reacted...
Jenkins' position as liaison officer with various Allied military missions gives Powell a chance to extend his insular comic powers to foreign fields. It also allows a sidelong glance at some of the larger tragic ironies of World War II. With remarkable feeling, Powell conveys the consternation of those concerned with Anglo-Soviet relations when chilling evidence comes in that the Russians have massacred 10,000 Polish officer-prisoners in the Katyn Forest...