Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignored (The Jefferson Airplane and Procol Harum), and urinated upon by a lukewarm assemblage of beligerent flower-cretins. Entertainment is left up to a very few white groups who know how to act onstage, such as the Who, the Stones, the Rascals, and most of the English blues people. Art is left pretty much up to the Beatles and Dylan. The common denominator of all the popular groups is that they have realized that they are not just "doing their thing" but that they are putting on a show, that they are different from their audience in some very material...
...Nixon's chief urban advisor, has appointed as his deputy Stephen Hess, who last year was a fellow at the Institute of Polities of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government. Hess is a former Eisenhower aide who recently coauthored a book about political cartoons in America, The Ungentlemanly Art...
...audience for Kurosawa films in the U.S. has been severely limited by the vagaries of film distribution. Although Rashomon became an art-house staple after it won an Academy Award in 1951, most of Kurosawa's other films have not found their way to many American screens. Red Beard, like Pierrot Le Fou first shown in 1965 but just released in New York, is being presented at a special foreign-language theater with only a whisper of publicity. Thus, filmgoers across the country may once again miss a masterpiece by one of the world's great film makers...
Pope was a child of his times who believed in a divine order, which he frequently described as nature. In An Essay On Man he wrote: "All nature is but art, unknown to thee;/ All chance, direction, which thou canst not see." It was upon a generally held conception of divine and human order that Pope built his strict prosody...
...superb, ceremonious formality of Pope's verse is strange to modern ears. In Tocqueville's prophetic words: "Taken as a whole, literature in democratic ages can never present, as it does in periods of aristocracy, an aspect of order, regularity, science and art; its form will on the contrary ordinarily be slighted, sometimes despised, [and] the object of authors will be to astonish rather than please, and to stir the passions rather than charm the taste...