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...favorite ways to create an unusual perspective for viewers. Last year, she presented "To Busby and Agassiz with Love," a dance production dedicated to Busby Berkely and the Agassiz Theater, which placed the spectators on the stage and couples doing the tango on the seats. According to Reader, the audience of "Gym Transit" will be limited to 50 or 60 so that it can be completely surrounded by the activity...
Given these developments, the optimism Carter expresses at the end of the book rings hollow. Moreover, the reader is not offered a compelling reason to believe that, in a region that Carter writes has been "characterized by tremendous suffering and conflict among its peoples," peace is likely to come any time soon. Indeed, both the long-run historical perspective and the outline of current events suggest that peace is hardly around the corner...
...into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts and can become very knowledgeable about them. This is much less true of literature . . . A bookish man will be an omnivorous reader, obviously, but he will not be greedy: by consuming more reading matter than is customary he does not deprive anyone else of his share . . . The same could be said of music...
They disturb no reader, either, for Willard fails to convey a sense of why they were so great. Why does Iron Man McGinnity remember his first home run? Is there anything Lou Gehrig won't do for his mother? What is it about baseball that calls men back from the dead? The average reader, caught up in a tale of love, war, and the supernatural, won't ask those questions, but it's a shame Willard, definitely an above-average writer, does not answer them...
James presents a finite amount of statistical information in the Abstract, since most of the book is prose. The Analyst is mostly numbers and places a multitude of fascinating facts at the fingertips of the enterprising reader...