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...Kandinsky, the other fa ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit. Art would help in this great, vague process. Though words were hard to sunder from the sublunary mire of things, art could become intrinsically abstract, as pure an example of internal harmony as music...
Romantic fictions depend on difficulty. Something has to keep the lovers apart for a while to build suspense and the audience's sympathy before they can get together. And, of course, there has to be something to sunder them at the end. But nowadays all the old reliable problems - differences of years, background and religion, for example - are carelessly surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair...
...wording of questions as on what people answer. That New York Times poll of October 19, for example, states that 40 per cent of Americans believe inflation is the country's worst problem. Another 20 per cent say energy is the biggest problem. For so many people to sunder the two issues--and for the Times to go along--is appalling, as though you could separate the political problems of oil and gasoline from their price per barrel and gallon...
...telling. Leonard makes the pas sage of time itself a major character in Da. What time does for Charlie is to make him realize that what he yearns to do-exorcise the past-is not only impossible but self-defeating. He is bonded to what he wishes to sunder. Like all of humankind, he belongs to the great chain of being, and his father is his closest accessible, unalterable link in that chain...
...Ronald Reagan of California and Nelson Rockefeller of New York. In opposite wings of the party, both Reagan and Rockefeller might have won confirmation with little difficulty, but Nixon rightly judged that choosing either would give him a head start toward the 1976 nomination that both crave and thus sunder an already Watergate-weakened minority party. That problem does not exist with Ford. After his selection, the minority leader declared: "I have no intention of being a candidate for President or Vice President in 1976." He may change his mind, but his current plan is to retire from public life...