Word: chauvinists
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...little elitist and a little male chauvinist," one society member admitted. "The men duel for the hands of their chosen ladies, and carry their ladies favors into battle, much as medieval knights once did. But the women don't seem to mind...
What about, for example, the aphasics of the counterculture? The ad writer may dingdong catch phrases like Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...
Scott said that "surprising" numbers signed the petition in the all-male Houses-Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett and Mather-and in the Union. She said it was encouraging that some people "would sign against their own immediate chauvinist self-interests...
...battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Not bad, but incomplete. Add frustrated novelist, passionate movie dabbler, sexual scientist, terror of the TV talk shows, critic of the global village and, to the ladies of Women's Liberation, master male chauvinist...
This is Eastern chauvinist rhetoric. But such attacks do, at least, indicate one crucial difference between the art scenes on the West and East coasts. New York has an efficient phalanx of museums and publications to sustain the discourse between new art and its audience. Southern California has not. Its museums, declares Los Angeles Critic John Coplans, "are basically social clubs with a strong materialistic background of acquisitions for local trustees. You can't walk into any museum in L.A. for most of the year and see a permanent installation of vital work that's being done here...