Word: anagram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voltaire was probably an anagram developed from Arouet L. J. (le jeune) using the u and the j in their 16th century forms...
GARY BURTON QUARTET: LOFTY FAKE ANAGRAM (RCA Victor). Despite its put-on-pop title, this album is a persuasive blend of jazz and pop. Burton's mallets dance over the vibes knocking out masterly, improvised melodies. Occasionally he forays into the fugue, as in Lines, where Larry Coryell's country-blues guitar plays an especially effective counterpoint. Steve Swallow on bass provides a mellow underpinning, while Drummer Bobby Moses adds cymbal-splashes of color. On swiftly paced tracks such as June the 15, 1967, their rapid notes become a braided stream of bright sound...
...Beatles is that they've never been part of anything else. Three years ago they stood in the wind next to Stonehenge singing "The Night Before" amused and surrounded by tanks. Then last summer they came out in flowers. Lucy in the Sky in with Diamonds was an anagram for LSD; A Day in the Life smoked pot; and then there was All You Need Is Love. Great new sounds, but it sure looked like they'd joined the hippies. After their new 45, we can turn around and read the summer differently. They may have dressed like hippies...
...about the same time, though, the Beatleologists hit a dry vein when they decided that the songtitle "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was an anagram for LSD. The song's author, John Lennon, has explained to the world that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was the title of a drawing his daughter brought home from school, around which he built a song about a little girl's fantasies. The song is simply an updated "Big Rock Candy Mountain" with a very neat accelerate-slowdown effect that gives the impression that you're traveling...
...sake, Johns was trying to mix water and oil, as far as the art of the last 30 years is concerned. He would superimpose 0, 1,2,3 through 9 in a single image, making unnumerical gibberish of the alphabet of mathematics. Or he would paint an anagram of the basic digits so that none would look the same. He tackled these flat, unsensual forms because, to make them the proper subject of art, he had to endow them with more eye appeal and more meaning than their original human designers had already given them. This, he believes...