Word: blunden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edmund Blunden, a poet, elaborates a Syndrome theme when he recalls the endlessness of war in that attack on the Somme. "By the end of the day," he writes, "both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the War. The war had won, and would go on winning." And after carefully building up evidence for the recurrence of this theme since that time, Fussell quotes this headline from The New York Times: "U.S. Aides in Vietnam/See an Unending...
...only giving you a pale chill compared to the frisson you get reading it--leaves you with a sense of an entire social construct arising out of the Great War. He carefully analyzes the major war-related works of Sassoon, Owen, Robert Graves, David Jones, and Edmund Blunden, to show how they created the new ironic form of cognition World War I bestowed upon our culture...
This may not be so much Fussell's fault as the social conditions of the times, the strict division between the officers and the Other Ranks, (who did all the fighting), and the officers' godlike clutch on "culture." A colonel, for instance, read a review of Edmund Blunden's poetry in the Times Literary Supplement, and he called Blunden back from the trenches to do light duty at batallion headquarters. But sometimes Fussell gets caught up in that class-determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close...
...Vida Blunden, president of the Associated Dance Teachers of California, says that professional entertainers, who are being called on increasingly for tap routines, helped start the revival. "Many young dancers these days are finding out that they just have to have tap." Keeping in step with the times, the 100-odd Fred Astaire ballroom-dancing schools across the country are for the first time offering tap lessons. In New York, reports George Connolly, of the National Council of Dance Teacher Organizations, the rise in tap-lesson attendance has been "phenomenal...
Impressionists and Impressionism by Maria and Godfrey Blunden. 238 pages. Skira...