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Intellectually, the middle encourages a convenient fuzziness of attitude, for it defines itself by letting others declare the extremes that it will compromise between. When this is the attitude of society as a whole, there is much to be said for it: a stable but not static society adjusts itself by listening to recitals of grievances, striking balances between competing passions strongly held, heeding complaints of injustice and responding to, if nothing else, the weight of numbers. In such a canceling out of conflicting claims and in such readiness to compromise, society finds a mean that may not be golden...
...observers, but later agreed to 1,000. Nor could the foes agree on the depth of "military zones" to be established on each side of the disengagement line. Jerusalem wanted relatively wide areas of 14.5 miles on either side of the U.N. buffer manned by limited forces in static positions. Damascus, on the contrary, wanted narrow zones (no more than three miles), each manned by 20,000 men and a hundred tanks free to roam instead of being confined to fixed positions. One reason: Damascus, Syria's capital, is only 30 miles from the present front. Syria also objected...
There was one motif-and, as this show inexorably suggests, only one-with which he was fully at home: the still life. Still life was the test bed of cubism-the static arrangement of homely objects, a glass, a bottle, a bowl, a newspaper, some cards or grapes, which could bear all the twisting and rotation and chopping that the cubist eye demanded. With a few rare exceptions, like Picasso's famous portrait of Kahnweiler or Gris's 1912 portrait of Picasso, the human figure, mutable and livery and emotionally expressive as it is, was not the ideal...
...solid critical standing and the growing accessibility of his prose. With his novel, The Blood Oranges, he began to pare down the dense, complexly allusive style that had saddled him with the reputation of a "writer's writer." The intricate plots of his early work gave way to simple, static situations. The Lime Twig (1961), still Hawkes's best novel, had the suspenseful, carefully interwoven plot of a detective story rendered in turbulent, opaque prose. The turbulence is still there, but plot has all but disappeared from Hawkes's novels. The Traveller of his new work is a middle-aged...
Time and again he reduces his charac ters to elements in static landscapes, fur ther distancing us from Molly and friends. friends...