Word: canting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Therapy Workshop. Many of Orton's jokes are the kind told in mixed company only after several drinks. But the man had a machine-gun wit that he leveled on pomposities, pretensions and do-good liberal cant of any kind. Sample burst of fire: Mrs. Prentice: "What's Miss Barclay doing in the therapy workshop?" Dr. Prentice: "She's making white tar babies for sale in color-prejudice trouble spots...
...less than two hours it provides an anthology of liberal cant bound in a dust jacket of selfesteem. Lord Byron Jones (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a wealthy undertaker with two sources of shame: his skin, which is black, and his wife (Lola Falana), who has been carrying on with a white policeman (Anthony Zerbe). Jones discards his cowardice and sues for divorce-a maneuver designed to expose the sinners and, incidentally, the hypocrisy of the state of Tennessee. Jones' "liberation" is his murder, but along the way he frees his brethren and damns the Old South, as presented...
...amorality, young men anxious for employment, unaware that the hidden waiting-room camera is counting every tic. Periodically, Funt breaks in to remind the audience that it is hidebound by the strictures of Victorian morality, that his X-rated candid camerawork is helping to free society from hypocrisy and cant. But if society were truly free, there would be no Naked Lady, which lives, like any thigh-slapping practical joker, on the embarrassment of the innocent...
...toward the question. His later novels move with increasing confidence toward a personal answer. What Bellow continues to do with splendid energy in his new book, Mr. Sammler's Planet, is nothing less than clear a place in the rubble where a man can stand. An affirmation? The cant word embarrasses. It suggests fetid molecules of doubt coated with pine scent. But yes, Bellow affirms...
...sociology and Madison Avenue-does a marked disservice to itself and the ideas of the people who use it. For the New Left has made substantial contributions, particularly in painfully rubbing the American conscience on a number of issues-Viet Nam, poverty, racism-where pain is appropriate. When the cant is dropped, moreover, The New Left Reader provides brilliant and striking perceptions. In The May Day Manifesto, a trio of British New Leftists write against empire, the cold war and the concept of consensus with wit, clarity and a cutting edge that once would have deserved to be called Tory...