Word: courants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addressee of one letter was Mrs. George L. Ruffin, editor of Boston's Courant, the Negro newspaper published from 1883 to 1899. (Her husband was the first Negro to be graduated from Harvard Law School (1869), and he managed to sail through its entire curriculum in one year.) The writer of this 1891 letter, Thomas W. Higginson, appended a postscript to point out that all the work of grading and laying out the grounds around the Cambridge Public Library was done by Negroes. This is the same Higginson who was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and from...
...afford it, the In place to go is Tokyo, whose 108 clinics lure an estimated 200,000 women every year. The attraction of Tokyo is easy to understand. Japanese techniques are more advanced than anywhere else in Asia, and Japanese surgeons make it a practice to keep au courant with the latest fashions in faces. Besides, Tokyo offers an advantage that local clinics cannot match: secrecy. Unless her name is Madame Ky, milady can accomplish and recover from all her rearrangements while her friends think she is on a three-week jaunt around Japan...
...Courant...
Because Advocate writers have imitated all of literati for the past hunters, Culler has tried to tell the magazine's history by tracing the impact of literary innovations on undergraduate writers. This kind of literary history is absurd, because, although Harvard undergraduates are imitative, they are not au courant. Usually the Advocate was reactionary and rejected new kinds of expression until they had received world approbation. The Advocate ignored Eliot, Pound, and Cummings until 1930, considering itself "the heroic defender of an unchanging literary standard." It's just now warming up to Ginsberg and the Dionysion-Apollonian poetry squabble...
...York has welcomed Wolfe as the traditional Outsider come to tell them about themselves. Confusing him with camp, pop art, underground movies, and whatever else is au courant, they've honeyed him into a parlor gadfly, who describes the vital, vulgar, exotic American Now which is as far from their sphere of knowledge or comprehension as Ulan Bator. He himself admits that his readership significantly overlaps with that of his hated New Yorker...