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Moral Delight. Cheever is not a great expositor of character. Fiction as character study belongs to the Victorian novel, and this, he believes, is as obsolete as the world it moved in-the tight, homogeneous community, before mass communications smoothed out the world and blurred individuality. This tends to make his novels seem disjointed, but he defends it on the ground that disjunction is the nature of modern society...
Ninety-eight years later, Critic Edmund Wilson, the most gifted and eloquent expositor of Marxism the U.S. ever produced, failed to file an income tax return. He went on failing to file right up to 1955, when he got around to opening financial conversations with the U.S. Government. In the nature of things, these talks were painful. They provoked in Wilson second and even more painful thoughts about the nature of government, of bureaucracy, of the status of free men, of the rights of a private man against the huge man-chewing, electronically endowed apparatus of a modern state...
Charles Hart's failure is due principally to his didactic attitude. He tries to act the experienced expositor of strange worlds to an ignorant audience, but his attempts to shock by strong language and unusual situation merely confuse his story and annoy his listeners. Nor are the plot and characters so novel. The salvation of the fallen woman, Carol, after her final rejection of environment, friends, and lover has been told before; the twist of using the reactivated love of her crude paramour Morey instead of that of a new Prince Charming is the only originality. Hart's background characters...
...compilation of mathematical writings The World of Mathematics is a classic editorial feat; Mathematics and the Imagination (which Newman wrote with the late mathematician Edward Kasner) was, on the other hand, an original work that popularized lucidly some nontrivial aspects of mathematics. Echoes of both the editor and the expositor trail through the pages of this latest compendium: Newman, I think, is trying to have the best of two worlds in his essays...
...thoroughly into Clifford's presuppositions; the result is a thoughtful and interesting sketch. The selection on Einstein is shorter but no less satisfying. Einstein's own questions are dealt with fairly in a coherent outline of his discoveries and some of his own classic illustrations. The editor and the expositor in Newman have somehow blended perfectly here...