Word: avant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store, on MacDougal Street in N. Y.'s Greenwich Village, was staffed by Hillman and his wife Bunny, whom he had met at Cornell. "We got the reputation of being an off-beat book store," Hillman recalled. "National magazines came occasionally to try and do a story on an avant garde Village store but I usually discouraged them. I remember once a photographer from Coronet wanted to take pictures of the shop but asked me to take down our 'Joe Must Go' banner before he began shooting. I threw...
Swedenborg, Kierkegaard, Toynbee, et al. When he does not have his avant-garde up, Wilson sounds suspiciously like Norman Vincent Peale: "It is not original sin that keeps man unaware of his own godhood, but his failure to connect himself with his own powerhouse...
...animation of the drawings of school children. The second, a British import, is a bit more serious in nature. Called Animated Genesis, it most skillfully and beautifully depicts a view of history, even if one cannot agree with its utopian conclusions. Using colored abstractions in the manner of most avant-garde films, it is much more successful in putting over ideas by patterns and symbols than the majority of attempts to use this format. The film has much in common with a number of semi-propaganda cartoons of the thirties, displaying the same sort of over-simplification. The drawing...
...Thirds of a Jeep. Petersen concedes that his campaign may not get anywhere "for a long time." Nevertheless, his magazines wield far-reaching influence. By popularizing cars with lower lines and such avant-garde gimmicks as fuel injection systems and dual exhausts, the magazines help stimulate demand for engineering and styling refinements in assembly-line autos (which are rigorously road-tested each year by the editors). In addition, Publisher Petersen, himself an auto mechanic's son, has been a major factor in building a new, $15 million-a-year market for manufacturers of esoteric auto accessories ranging from racing...
...looking around is Schuster's Art Gallery on Palmer Street, behind the Coop. The Gallery is in the loft of an old paint shop and it bears many scars of its early career. Ethereal verse occasionally seeps through the wall from the Poet's Theatre and various raven-haired avant-garde types waft in and out on various clouds...