Word: blurbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there is numbingly dreary rhythm and somnolent guitar work. For connoisseurs of modesty, there is this blurb on the record jacket by the album's producer, Ronald Budnik: "It is hoped that Axelrod's work will bring to light and punctuate the creative acumen of Handel...
Times must be hard for the enemies of capitalist decadence; Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta has laid down a heavy ideological barrage against Film Director Alfred Hitchcock, accusing him of "antihumanistic attitude toward art" and "psychological sadism." But as so often happens, a Communist putdown is a bourgeois blurb. "Millions of his spectators," says the Gazeta, "take Hitchcock's sinister feelings seriously and sigh with relief when the dark in the movie house is dispelled and the lights come on again...
...film critics haven't changed. There are still only a few, mostly the same ones who wrote ten years ago. But there is also a slough of college-educated hipsters and slick-journalist hypesters who probably wanted to be film critics since the time when they scanned their first blurb. And for no better reason than wanting to be a blurb themselves someday...
...Youth), one might conclude that the world's greatest novelist is somehow becoming obsolete. For today's readers, apparently, Dostoevsky needs to be dressed up in motley and passed off as an expert on the generation gap or the counterculture. Indeed, the jacket blurb describes this 97-year-old novel as a work of "extraordinary timeliness...
...nice turnabout, but sympathizing with Snow's dilemma is difficult. The jacket blurb describes him as "Hawthornesque"; and indeed he is an energetic scruple collector. But unlike Hawthorne's eloquent slaves to conscience, Snow is neither articulate nor even very bright, and finally he saps the novel of the considerable drama it might have...