Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down to the Sea. Oklahoma's Will Rogers once cracked: "When the Arkansas, Red River, Salt Fork, Verdigris, Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas...
Dubious as this defense may sound, it is in part based on fact. Dennis Oppenheim was invited by the Yale School of Architecture to design ways in which earth evacuated for superhighways could be molded or mounded. Robert Morris has received a $10,000 commission from the students of Northwestern...
"Magnificently ugly," the young Henry James summed her up in 1869, "deliciously hideous." But in the ugliness of "this great, horse-faced bluestocking," James admitted with some awe, "resides a most powerful beauty . . . and sweetness-a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power."
Moreover, the whole idea of with-it books for the young can easily get out of hand. Perhaps the hacks of kiddie lit are already at work on Freedom Freak-Out: Nancy Drew Infiltrates the New Left or Our Summer Vacation: The Bobbsey Twins Win the Hearts and Minds of...
My problems started in Meridian. Meridian is a sprawling, ugly town. The major reason for its existence seems to be that it graphically proves that towns need neither culture nor beauty to exist. Meridian also provides a showcase for some of the raunchiest elements of Southern culture, and for that...