Word: charnel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Arlen's immediate subject in The Living Room War is not the staggering charnel house we live in and which lives on us. It is that small, luminous, oracular, electronic avatar called television. Arlen is in passionate agreement with Richard Goodwin who writes: "We pass through all this tumult seated before the inexorable shadows of a TV set-certainly the greatest psychic disturber ever created...
...usually self-congratulation for the act of explanation. The result has been a sanctimonious exhumation which consists of a disfiguring serious of antinomies, most commonly Mahler as neurasthenic Demon and Poet. But more violent misconceptions are the persistent currency of Mahler criticism, Many people think of him as a charnel-house, a confusion of specters and fantasies, an artificer of self-pitying jeremiads, or as a fraudulent amateur celebrating merely the craft of symphonic composition. Others consider him, like all other "late-romantic" (i.e., decadent) composer, as imperishable for is aspirations but cruelly betrayed by the fragility of is introspective...
...When the truth was finally told about World War II concentration camps, it was so shattering that the civilized world is still recovering pieces of its conscience. Now East Germany has joined the film makers of France, England and the U.S. with an examination of one of the German charnel houses during the final days...
...charnel house of London...
Rather than cartoons, Edward Kienholz, 38, goes in for whole stage sets (or "tableaux," as he calls them) that have the grisly impact of a charnel house, yet on second glance present deeply shocking morality plays. Birthday, says the well-spoken former farmer, should express the hope offered by even the most forlorn birth. Giant plastic arrows express resurrection, even if with a tainted blatancy; the plastic bubble above the mannequin mother's mouth, actually a dimestore baby's plastic bubble, symbolizes a scream. It is theater, embalmed in translucent epoxy and cluttered with props-a ghostly coat...