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[NABOKOV-L] [Sighting] Tne New Yorker:a baroque mandarin
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In the gigantic edition of "The complete cartoons of the New Yorker" Ed. R. Mankoff, 2004, introducing the illustrations that correspond to The Fourth Decade (1955-1964), John Updike wrote:
" There were stirrings even under the anodyne Eisenhower. In popular culture, early rock drowned our mellow remnants of the big-band era; in painting, the stern and heroic canvases of Abstract Expressionism morphed into the cheerful junk art of Pop art and the deadpan quiddity of Minimalism; in writing, baroque mandarins such as Bellow and Nabokov added new, ligther notes to the sonorities of our native naturalism. A certain lightness and gaiety, indeed, permeated the décor and the mindset of a hardworking land.... The magnitude of free-world leadership weighed on the collective mind: "The Russians have the Intercontinental Ballistic missile, and we have the Edsel."
(excerpts, page 240-242).
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" There were stirrings even under the anodyne Eisenhower. In popular culture, early rock drowned our mellow remnants of the big-band era; in painting, the stern and heroic canvases of Abstract Expressionism morphed into the cheerful junk art of Pop art and the deadpan quiddity of Minimalism; in writing, baroque mandarins such as Bellow and Nabokov added new, ligther notes to the sonorities of our native naturalism. A certain lightness and gaiety, indeed, permeated the décor and the mindset of a hardworking land.... The magnitude of free-world leadership weighed on the collective mind: "The Russians have the Intercontinental Ballistic missile, and we have the Edsel."
(excerpts, page 240-242).
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