Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wanna getta hiton B'way? Simple. Write one of those serio-comic-mystic-meaningless farces. How? Well, ecoutez...
...sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind. A nearly endless series of appallingly anatomical boy-meets-girl grapplings sometimes suggests that sex is the mystic key to magical joy, but often offers it as an uproarious poolhall joke...
...were thought to be square. Even Davies experimented with angular nudes, but they turned out more prismatic than cubistic. Soon Davies found not only his style but also his life altered, for he grew weary of backing a movement with which he had no basic affinity. Always a mystic, he withdrew increasingly into seclusion...
...history may be the numerous works by painters not completely drawn up in the sweep of stylistic progression but unmistakably and sometimes unwillingly influenced by it. The coloring of lean Leon Gerome's "Diana, chasseresse" demonstrates the power of a limited palette, Gerome, the master of Eakins constructs a mystic vision in unusual tones of blue and silver, evoking a half-horrible world be remembrance that anticipate surrealism...
Such is the simple plot of this new novel by V. S. Naipaul, 29, a Hindu who made a name for himself in his first novel, The Mystic Masseur, which recorded with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy...