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… can, without making a single conceptual effort, shift completely from esthetic to moral grounds. Given the … art. Thus book reviews, quarterlies, and academic journals abound with reflexive references to serious art, serious … to humor. The antithesis of the serious response, it embodies two attitudes: the patronizing attitude, which holds …

… Lightning, American Light. By Susan Dunn. Faber and Faber. $26.00. Near the American military cemetery at the foot of … friendship. There one can read a reminder of just how welcoming the French people have been for more than two hundred … true that sentiment must be for the thousands of G.I.s, who died in World War II and are now buried all over France. The …

… then is gone. It is that fast, that nondescript. You come to see the sheet that covers me rise and fall, thinking … you need to believe this. It’s easier to watch a person die if you think he is not watching you live. For you, death …

… his detractors, the legend of his total or near illiteracy dies hard, so that if he did not really say that his … was “to get there fustest with the mostest” (Henry Steele Commager, among others, believes that he really said “to get … to be his aide. This was astonishing news. Surely generals did not choose their aides so haphazardly. Why wouldn’t …

… exemplary artist to grasp it. Rilke, in this instance, embodies the vivid conditions that we’ve come to see as indeed … were a challenge to his own authority and potency.” Berger points out that in one of the nude sketches for what would … so carelessly. Rilke died from leukemia on December 29, 1926, in Switzerland, where he had been living for the last …