Word: anon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the Golden Helmet is as great as it ever was, not the least bit fake. But to be described in the future as a work by "Anon" or perhaps "School of Rembrandt" is to be changed forever. And the change somehow diminishes the picture and therefore diminishes us. This continuous search for truth can be a painful and punishing process. Sometimes it seems that all of education consists of first learning things and then learning that they are not true...
...group's strongest pieces. One standout is the Melrod-penned Shakespearean soap opera called "Most Grievous Hospital," which is rendered in Elizabethan rhyming couplets from the introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy--regular General Hospital fare--("Oh, woe, that I should unaraesthetized bear such pain") and through to the end ("...and o'er the martinis that our good pay makes possible, We'll mourn the sorry state of this... most...
...vastly superior in every way, a lot of Harvard women simply write off the credibility of the other colleges and universities and pronounce the women silly airheads--their only desire in life being to net a Harvard man who will marry them and make them happy forever and anon. In many cases this label is not deserved--yet little is ever done to dispel the myths that have been around for so long, and that show no likelihood of dying soon...
Wildernesses are In now; belching symbols of industrial power are Out. Abigail Adams? "Remember the ladies" is, of course, obligatory. And, in keeping with its relentless democracy, the new Bartlett's greatly increases the space devoted to the works of Anon. He (she) now provides not only such familiar items as "O.K.," "Kilroy was here" and "Women and children first," but also a cornucopia of cowboy songs, Indian chants and even some less-than-familiar Swahili proverbs ("Speak silver, reply gold...