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...work and is so acknowledged by those he meets at cocktail parties: "Ah, you're a fiction editor," or "Ah, you're a wire man for the White House." If the workadaddy (Tom Wolfe's useful word) capriciously retires, most of his is-ness leaks away...
Lover or artist? Neither or both? In the end, Bradley Pearson's designation scarcely matters, for The Black Prince is really the story of all souls who traffic with their demons in order to transcend, sometimes at a terrible risk, the meanness, the dull ness, the lower depths of being human. Blessed are those who live to tell about it, pre-eminently Iris Murdoch...
Mark Harris, 50, has always worked a vein of comedy bordering on moral outrage. Even his pastoral baseball nov els of the '50s (The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly) were brushed with sad ness. The undertone of finely controlled anger that ran through Harris' early works grew, in the '60s, into the hectoring shrillness of a prophet scorned...
Exactly how the application trend will translate into class size in September is not yet clear. "The payoff is how many register," noted A.A.C. President Frederic W. Ness. Moreover, high school seniors today may simply be more confident about getting into their first-choice colleges. In that case, there would be fewer applications to second-choice schools than there were in the fiercely competitive 1960s. Still, the U.S. Office of Education predicts that next fall's enrollments at four-year campuses will be roughly the same as this year's 9.2 million. Turned off by high college costs...
...start asserting forms of its own in defiance of the edges. This occurs particularly in the earlier sprayed canvases, when the field begins to look like a random set of tones instead of a unified surface in controlled transition. Danger here also takes the form of boring all-over-ness in a few paintings where Olitski attempts to place one plane of color on top of another, binding the second plane into the picture by making it recede on one side and advance on the other. And then there is the tendency of the paintings to turn into portraits...