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Your story "The Women of Israel" [Feb. 20], with the subheading "second-class citizens," tends to leave a rather distorted impression. The true situation is something in between the Amazon image of the fierce combatant pictured in the movies, and the bleak portrait Ms. Hazleton is quoted as portraying in her book...
...anguish. It was one of the last convulsions of northern romanticism; and like all romantic painting, it was essentially an art of subject matter. The expressionist attitude lay at the opposite pole of experience from the sensuous, Cartesian quality of French art. At the time Kirchner painted his self-portrait in conscript's uniform, France had also experienced-from the other side of the trenches-the horrors of total war. But nothing by a major French painter in those traumatic years resembled Kirchner's paroxysm of self-pity-the haggard artist displaying the raw (but fictional) stump...
U.S.A. is the portrait of a national illusion, or rather, of national disillusion. The closer America moved toward that disillusionment, the farther away its people grew from themselves, running about and seemingly never exerting even a modicum of control over their own lives. America of this period is well suited for a novel or play that examines that superficiality and gets at the pain lying beneath it. But Manulis's U.S.A. omits far too much of what transpires beneath the surface. What remains after the newsreel and strung together character collages is a superficial play about superficial people...
Nancy Morgan objected that the anagram was a "remuddling of an already felt confusion." His brother George, both a De Gramont and a brand manager for Lipton Tea, said that Morgan was throwing away a valuable brand name. (Sanche de Gramont had written several books, including an astringent national portrait, The French, and a good popular history of the Niger River, The Strong Brown God.) The author ignored all this and became Morgan...
...this charmed band of brothers. Eddie was her father; Ronnie, Dilly and Wilfred her beloved uncles. There was also Aunt Ethel, withdrawn and spinsterly, and Aunt Winnie, boundlessly affectionate. "Enter Winnie," wrote Eddie in a childhood play, "and kisses everybody." Penelope follows Winnie's lead: her family portrait, scrupulously honest, laced with good humor and lovingly crafted, is a valentine to the sort of family that has largely ceased to exist...