Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers, railroad maps, timetables, string, bottle caps, photographs-to assemble collages (see color) that were a twitting comment on bourgeois life and an already demolished world. To Schwitters a canceled imperial postage stamp represented the collapse of the Hohenzollerns. Schwitters' collages were not meant merely to shock, annoy, puzzle or defy the conventions of society. "What we are expressing in our work," he once said, "is neither idiocy nor subjective play, but the expression of our time as dictated by the time itself...
Bilko & Como. BBC, after all, was ahead of the U.S. in beginning public television back in 1936. But BBC's drawback in program making has always been, in the words of one English critic, its automatic recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial...
Although these second and third thoughts annoy pigeonholing critics, Auden's revisions are one sign that he takes his poetry seriously-and knows that it is influential. Even more than T. S. Eliot, he is responsible for the unfettered, almost conversational tone that makes modern poetry sound modern. His manner has always been topical, chatty, a bit brash, unfailingly poised, only rarely lyrical. Above all, Auden's work suggests that there is nothing a poet cannot write poetry about, and most young poets since the early '30s have borrowed his air of verbal freedom. With...