Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their pictorial trademarks to logical extremes. By adding ribbons to his copy of Kenneth Noland's "And Again," he has created an authentic Baxter (shown with the artist, at right). In visual language, the work snorts that if stripes alone make a painting, then why don't longer stripes make a better...
...hands of wheelchair cripples and has married the same girl four times, and was always good for a column when Breslin was hard up, which was often. But Allen, who is real even if he sounds like a figment of Breslin's fertile Gaelic fancy, will no longer read about his exploits in the papers. At 39, Breslin is giving up newspapering, the only job he's known. Among others, his decision saddens Fat Thomas, the 350-lb. New York bookie, who has gone so legit since Breslin began writing him up that he now works...
...banks that succeed seem to do so by recruiting able management and making the local black community feel deeply involved. One problem is that many Negroes still feel more secure depositing their money with white bankers. This will be overcome in time, as education spreads. The longer-term danger is that, in their desire for safe profits, the black bankers may become overly prudent and turn down loans to the new Negro entrepreneurs who alone can turn the dream of "black capitalism" into a reality...
...half of their lives and harmful in the second." She broods: "Philippe has gone, and I am to spend the rest of my life with an old man!" But this is ridiculous. She reasons that age need not mean decline; that even though one's body is no longer 20, to a reflective mind there are enormous advantages in possessing a rich lode of memory; and that she herself has never written so well...
...true? Suddenly the earth is no longer steady. Their son, whom she had raised to be a left-wing intellectual, quits work on his Ph.D. thesis and, to please his shallow wife, takes a profitable sinecure in the Ministry of Culture. (The choice is amusing; Leftist de Beauvoir is taking a poke at De Gaulle's "house" intellectual, Minister of Culture Andre Malraux.) Then reviews appear of her latest book, a work intended to offer fresh approaches to literary criticism. "Wearisome repetition," they say, or at best, "an interesting restatement." The reviewers are correct, she realizes, and it seems...