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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside the workaday facade of sanity with even less regard for the reader's preconceptions than a genuine madman. They destroy the grammatical and conceptual continuities on which we base our hackneyed understanding without offering anything on which to hang a new vision of things, and the result is often mere anarchy...
...traditional Eastern models. As if they feared that the elegant style of their other mosaics would appear unseemly, Daphni's artists made the Pantocrator one of the most grim and overpowering figures to be found in all Byzantine art. Far from offending, Daphni's Pantocrator today often strikes critics as a welcome antidote to sentimentalized and saccharine images of Christ...
...laboratory. Thousands of lengthy questionnaires are sent out; microphones are hidden in new cars in showrooms to catch comments; salesmen carry wire recorders tucked in their pockets. In fact, automakers have studied the public so carefully that they have inspired sociologists and motivational researchers to draw weighty-and often silly-conclusions about the U.S. public by merely studying their cars...
...sweaty and real as subway rush-hour passengers, but soon has them clothed in white and silver and singing hosannahs. His characters have the compelling quality of doing astonishingly inappropriate things and then forcing others to recognize a Tightness in their appalling behavior. At his best, Malamud is often as funny and earthy as the great Jewish humorist, Shalom Aleichem. But in his transfigured view of the world he may lie even closer to Francois Mauriac, the Catholic moralist who also holds that "the marks left by one individual upon another are eternal, and not with impunity can some other...
Novelist Alberto Moravia (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love ) has often written about sex as man's hex. In Two Women he all but abandons sensuality for sorrow, all but ignores the battle of the sexes for the real war that raged across his native Italy in the '405. The result is a novel curiously dated as to period and theme, but strikingly different as a work from Moravia...