Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sleeping and distributes it as fast as his factories can manufacture it; Lichtenstein can't get off his punch line. "It seemed impossible to print something somebody wouldn't hang. Everybody was hanging everything"). The critic lacks an objective basis of taste; the artist refuses form, having already abandoned content; you get lost in the Whitney funhouse...
Sontag came to prominence in the middle sixties as a radical critic of culture, spokesperson for the New Sensibility. The New Sensibility praised form and damned content. It was against interpretation and for an anesthetic revolution founded on the non-literary arts of music, painting, film and architecture. In its pantheon were Jasper Johns and John Cage, Roland Barthes and Jean-Luc Godard, Buckminister Fuller and Alain Robbe-Grillet...
...calm confidence, the disguised naivite which Ivan has imported with him from the country to Kingston breaks down. When he refuses to submit to capture, killing a pursuing motorcycle cop, he finds his role as the renegade. Having been through the religion and music rackets, Ivan finally rests content with the rule of the gun. It marks his outright acceptance of the violence which lives behind the rackets...
...Schwartz presents a picture of the American as democratic agrarian. The key to revolution is an appeal to basic American morality. We must now overthrow big capitalism, regaining our spirit of liberty. "The American version of the concept of revolutionary nationalism would be anti-imperialist, humanist, and libertarian in content, and national in form and rhetoric...
...element of Alcott's writing that makes it most difficult to get by her style and to her content is precisely that which makes her most valuable as a model for writers who wish to drive home points about the equality of women. Alcott is subtle. All of the conflicts she describes are buried deep in her characters and in the society she so realistically describes...