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...Actually," says Weitz, "it's the reader who suffers, but then maybe she really wants to see clothes in awkward poses in bizarre settings. On the other hand, it's my selfish purpose to see my clothes looking beautiful; it's the photographer's selfish purpose to be famous; it's the art director's selfish purpose to have a striking, stylish page; it's the magazine's selfish purpose to sell ads and issues. With all these selfishnesses, you just come up with one big crumbier...
...monotonous avant garde anomie turns away fellow-travelers as well as Philistines. The trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible...
...deal directly with the "worries, fears, and loves of individual people." Like Conrad, Agee, and Orwell, he wants to bring the crushed people to life -- a significant pun, because Coles means it both as a writer and as a doctor: to make them "come alive" for the reader, and to make them live. His approach to psvchiatric chiatric problems ties in with his literary style. He shies away from the contemporary eagerness for 'explanation' by categories, and attempts to enter what he calls "the clumsy, undefined, paradoxical flow of life and its events...
...reader may be unsure which magazine to believe. But there is one reliable tipoff. Perspectives admits that the U.S. has made many mistakes in Viet Nam; Viet-Report will not concede a single U.S. success...
Anyone who embarks on this first novel is likely to stay with it to the end. The story is kept tautly suspended by a narrative skill that holds the reader even after he has begun to suspect, and rightly, that the structure is not as secure as it seemed. Len Price, a stubborn, unhappy British boy of poor and neglectful parents, lives out a fantasy life on Sundays at the London zoo. There his friend is a dotty old woman who calls him Paddy and firmly believes that his parents are both wealthy and solicitous. Len's castles crumble...