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...heaviest and bloodiest of 1953, came just a few days before the Chinese made a surprise offer to settle the "one question alone" which prevents a Korean truce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Thus, the Red right hand had struck while the left hand held out an olive branch. This familiar pattern of pugnacity mixed with conciliation undoubtedly had its place in the world strategy of the Kremlin's new management; within the Korean frame of reference, its meaning seemed fairly clear. The military attacks said, in effect: "Don't think, just because we are offering peace, that...
Last week, back in Manhattan from an African hunting trip, he announced that he is pulling up stakes, moving to Rome and radically changing his column. Says he: "I don't think a man can be a fresh provocative writer in the same pattern for more than seven or eight years. And I think the public is getting tired of being told what's what by pundits and columnists like me ... I have a yen to be what I was [i.e., a reporter] before public demand perverted me into a wise...
...never departed from this point, although he has prescribed a pattern for living within this situation. That pattern has taken several forms, but the one expounded most frequently in his novels is expressed by the father in Wealey Jackson: "There is no truth excepting it is from love." "What this has meant is that his characters ignore the "meaningless" world and seek a haven in love-love for each other, love for the good which exists in everyone...
...This went along quite well until he hit a book in 1951 called Rock Wagram. Something happened here. Saroyan discovered that this pattern was unacceptable. To love, he discovered, one must have someone to love, and despite the fact that he wanted his characters to love each other for the good in them, he found that the senseless world often exerted pressures on certain individuals which made them unacceptable objects of this love...
...does so," he said. "It will help to counter the alarming trend toward the establishment in America of the pattern of thought control which is characteristic of the totalitarian state...