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...paintings are etched with hard desert lines and spaces, and at times, Artist Georgia O'Keeffe has seemed like a prickly flower blooming in one of her own solitary landscapes. To a reporter visiting her isolated home in Abiquiu, N. Mex., she once offered this insight into her work: "If you don't get it, that's too bad." At the mellowing age of 88, however, O'Keeffe has decided there is a bit to be said after all. The result is a book of reflections on her life as a painter due to come...
...problem" to be solved. There is little sense that evil is a constant presence and inextricably mixed with good. That is why every new American generation seems to discover evil as if it had been invented only yesterday-and by the older generation. There is not much of the insight that man and society are permanently imperfect...
...BLACK SOLDIER who was in the trench next to Michael when he was killed wrote to the Mullens and gave them insight into their son's character. "I was the only Black in our squad," Private Willard Polk from Detroit wrote, "and I can honestly say I heard the word Nigger enough to last me a lifetime. You see, I could talk with Michael, he didn't care if you was Black or White. He was a good guy and we both had a great deal of respect for each other...
ALTHOUGH BRADLEY'S realization that conceiving of life as "a business of muscular organization" is inadequate seems to have inspired him to write this book, he is incapable of viewing it in any other terms. He writes best of failure and disillusionment--when his expression and insight has the strength of bitterness. Then he conveys poignantly a sense of his lonely impermanence and racial insecurity. But when he analyses race relations, commercialism, political organization, the American dream, or sex, he lapses into the weakest idiom of his other book--a sportswriter's mire of expressions like "real pro," "top condition...
...following, he sums up the 1973 championship with the old saw, "Vicariously experiencing the victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit in Bradley's off-beat anecdotes. There is a contradiction between his seasoned insight into professional basketball and the adolescent spirit of his language. With this parrot squawking denials on his shoulder, Bradley's Life on the Run seems not as desperate as he tries to make...