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...insist the case is not hopeless. Slight drafts of humility, heroically downed at an unguarded moment, can save Vidal still...
...first, the humor of Native Intelligence is a sharp and satirical joy. Sokolov, like his hero Harvard '63, summa cum laude, understands exactly the kind of mind he is writing about, and he portrays intelligence intelligently and with unerring accuracy. All of Alan's foibles--his detachment, his slight scorn for everyone else, his obsessive discovery of sex, in the way he dresses--ring absolutely true. His, and Sokolov's, mind is at bottom unceasingly observant and perceptive, interested in and a little bored by everything, endlessly analytical of self and surroundings. Because of this, the way the novel...
...they were in his years at Leningrad. "In my own judgement this institute will improve the life of many Iranians, maybe all Iranians. If it were appearing to me that my calculation about its ability to do so are mistaken, then I'll withdraw. And," he adds with a slight smile, "I wish I could find a university like this in the Soviet Union...
Lusterman and Norman don't possess Chassler's presence, her power to absorb an audience with each slight twitter. The two perform well in the idiom of Chassler's movement and occasionally hit upon the nexus of subjectivity/objectivity. Yet neither command Chassler's magic...
...long lines of Chassler's dance move with a consistently high level of energy, except for the pauses, this intensity never lessens. Although an ending is signaled by a slight falling-off from the high pitch. It's this constant flow of energy which gives Chassler's dance its characteristic quality-- the looseness, the spontaniety, the feel of the everyday almost to the point of banality...