Word: couth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society for the Preservation of Titheses commends your ebriated and scrutable use of delible and defatigable [April 10], which are gainly, sipid and couth. We are gruntled and consolate that you have the ertia and the eptitude to choose such putably pensable titheses, which we parage...
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious...
...Couth & the Uncouth. The postwar poets fall into two broad categories: the couth and the uncouth. So far the uncouth have not communicated much in the way of poetry, but they have come through loud and clear in the headlines. Dirty, noisy, loaded with banal aggression, The Beat Generation in the U.S. and the "Teddy-bards" in Britain have put poetry in the news for the first time since the '20s. ("The Beats have taken poetry out of the academic study," says one critic, "and put it in the subway restroom.") And the success of the uncouth has encouraged...
...feet inside the ivory tower of respectable poetic tradition. On the entirely tenable theory that a beard does not make a bard, the leading literary periodicals (Partisan Review, Kenyan Review, Hudson Review, Sewanee Review) have firmly refused to print action poetry. U.S. poetry is still unshakably dominated by the couth crowd...
...likes to know where his next cobwebby bottle of wine is coming from, plans to sell the 500-year-old family mansion. The buyer (Torin Thatcher) is an upstart real estate operator who likes to tromp on the middle of other people's sentences. But he has a couth and cultured wife (Kim Hunter) who likes to write. Donald writes too and, with a short story contest in view, he helps her work out the mechanics of a seemingly perfect crime. The question is how and when nature will follow...