Word: augustan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrival of Mussolini was greeted with rapture by so many leading artists and intellectuals. The Fascist rhetoric of dynamism and machine efficiency meshed with (and was partly inspired by) that of futurism; while the Duce's promise of a renewed empire, a "third Rome" that would replay the Augustan past, had immediate appeal to nostalgists like De Chirico, Carra and even Giorgio Morandi...
...Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened Augustan Whigs, adored by the whole inferior creation from their wives to their dogs and filling their rotundas with the works of Claude and Praxiteles. Surely by now an American museum can admit that a few of these paragons were educated brutes with Titians, like a few of their modern counterparts...
...Dewitt is not talking about a certain greasy salad dressing or the lint-free bellybutton. Augustus and Madonna have given us the most prized possession of historians and glibmeisters: the buzzword, what historians who like to use foreign languages call (and italicize) the zeitgeist. Augustus gave us the Augustan age; Madonna has given us the Age of Desperation...
Marquand Professor of English and American Literature David D. Perkins '51 quoted T.S. Eliot in calling Johnson "the best Augustan" in a presentation he gave on the influence of Johnson and his contemporaries on twentieth century poetry...
...glory of a next Augustan...