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The trouble is that there is a special feeling about being an ironworker, a special life, special requirements and frustrations. And Cherry gives enough glimpses of them that we feel what's missing. But he can't bear to write it down. The book's tragic figure is Timmy, an...
In the Concord Sonata, all the ambivalences and ambiguities work. All through the sonata Ives keeps returning to the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but they sound with a double edge. Beethoven meant to Ives all that was most progressive, most substantial, most radical--the "last sublime...
The ephemerality of existence recurs throughout the novel. In the opening chapter, Toru gazes out at the harbor and watches a ship appear in the fog:
Of the two Schubert piano trios, the E Flat is the more lyrical. In it Schubert composed one of his most exquisite melodies. This melody, slow and yearning in the second movement, Andante con moto, recurs in the fourth movement, Allegro moderato, transforms to major, and ends the trio grandly...
If in Nixon's America the language tends to be angular and mechanical, to speak of systems and order, in McGovern's nation it is a more humanistic vocabulary of "decency," "compassion" and "integrity." The idea of "a restoration of faith in government" recurs, a vaguely spiritual impulse focusing on...