Word: lightheartedness
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Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett. Her book is almost all dialogue-voices, echoes, whispers-misunderstood, unheard, ambiguous. Somehow she manages to remain irreverent and even lighthearted about the transgressions she describes. In her eleventh book, she seems more and more like a naughty little girl herself...
Cheating Cheaters. As far as the young and adventurous are concerned, Julio Le Pare sums up what is happening in art. How seriously they take him is a question that doesn't bother Le Pare at all. He describes his own work as "a labyrinth, a fun house, a...
And a lighthearted piece on the follies of human egotism ("The Day I Became a Genius"). The humorous musings of an amateur athlete ("Boxing and Me-the Boxer"). The details on an experimental camera that can shoot film in any light range ("Camera! Action!-What, No Lights?"). And sprinkled throughout...
Experience has taught him that although success is desirable, failure need not be fatal if one possesses enough human resilience. Of the advertising game he says, "If you play it grimly, you will die of ulcers. If you play it with lighthearted gusto, you will survive your failures without losing...
Treasure Fund. Draped regally in a gold brocade gown, her hair piled high in a bun, Lili Kraus last week began the first lap of her Mozart marathon. In the opening Concerto No. 4, composed when Mozart was eleven, she unfolded the beguilingly simple melodies with a rippling grace and...