Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every feature is recorded in its tiniest particular, with the strange result that his subjects become almost unrecognizable - they are veiled by the surplus of information on the canvas. As a consequence, Close's works are among the most troubling icons of American art in the '70s. He is perhaps the only artist of his generation who has really extended the meaning of portraiture...
...almost exclusively by children. Sinclair Lewis, the great name of the '20s-and the first American to win the Nobel for literature-is noticed only by spiders on library shelves, and John Dos Passos, who dominated the '30s, is all but forgotten in the '70s. In good times and bad, however, there is at least one sure bet: Trollope, Trollope and Trollope again...
...Chaucer's personal history, shadings of his personality - Gardner relies on scholarly guesses and novelistic license. After all, he teaches medieval literature at Bennington and, as the author of Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues and October Light, is one of the most enterprising American novelists of the '70s...
Harry Gallanty '79 is writing a book entitled The Cosmic Explorer. The protagonist is an extraterrestrial anthropologist who decides to study human culture of the 70s. Gallanty, a mathematics concentrator who left Harvard in the fall of 1975 to address the World Food Conference at the U.N., now travels around schools in the east and south, collecting material for his book. Gallanty is insightful and clear-thinking--not one of your fried-on-dope types. To the best of my knowledge, Gallanty plays no instruments, though he might hum and probably whistles. He is in Cambridge for three weeks; meet...
...they keep animals as prisoners to be eaten. There are echoes here of William Golding's The Inheritors, in which Homo sapiens wipes out the noble Neanderthal. Golding's text was suited for the grim '50s. Williams' happier ending is blended for the granola '70s. R.Z. Sheppard