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...interest, in La Rochefoucauld's view, was clearly the carrot that made men trot, as money was later singled out by Balzac, and sex by Freud. Yet, in obsessively concentrating on one human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger puts...
...some third-rate works such as the trompe-l'oeil offerings of one Aaron Shikler, to name the author of three objects among the several works which I found on a par with the average products of the Washington Square Arts Festival. In general, the many minor objects randomly interspersed among the major works gives the impression of an "attic" rather than "Attic" sort of collection. Nor shall I absolve the Busch from the equally random method of installation accorded the exhibition. The installation of three sculptures in one case, one on top of the other, has never been...
PRAISE A FINE DAY (179 pp.)-Sigrid de Lima-Random House...
...GREAT IMPOSTOR (218 pp.)-Robert Crichton-Random House...
BLOW UP A STORM (337 pp.)-Garson Kanin-Random House...