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Word: chthonian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Polyglut | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

During that time, one of those mysterious underground (or as Miller would put it, "Chthonian") movements has been rumbling about the name and personality of Henry Miller, and a committee-sized panel of names has been assembled by the publishers to "welcome Miller among the elect." The encomiums range in warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greatest Living Patagonian | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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