Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebel' is very easy. To grow a beard, to be sexually brave, to take dope even to kill-all these are understood experiences of 'nonconformism.' The one thing you cannot do is think, i.e., to build on your private definition of the world, and so to enjoy what Thomas Mann called the 'wealth of the mind'-that which makes a writer feel that he has a world in his hand ... I insist that in present terms, the theater of perversion, of 'sexual frankness,' of open violence, moves us farther away from the authentic...
...Abraham Lincoln made a phone call from Gettysburg to his press-agent in Manhattan. Abe was rebellious. He was going to shave his beard and wear a cardigan. The flack demanded that he keep the beard, shawl, stovepipe and string tie, or he would wreck his "image." Abe then announced that he had his speech neatly typed, and this distressed the flack even more. "Abe," pleaded the pressagent, "how many times have we told you: on-the-backs-of-envelopes...
...LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (2 vols., 444 pp. & 420 pp.)-edited by James Franklin Beard-Belknap Press of Harvard University...
...deal largely with the seven years (1826-33) during which he lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which...
Despite occasional critical attempts to rescue him from the juvenile field, Cooper has never really recovered his reputation. For all the journals' odd historical interest, Compiler Beard seems to have performed his scholastic labors in defiance of the Clerihew...