Word: couthness
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...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...
...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...
...defense: "You can't call any music immoral. If anything is wrong with rock 'n' roll, it is that it makes a virtue out of monotony." For the prosecution, the best comment comes indirectly from Actress Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday: It's just not couth, that...
...EDWARD GANG, 26, in the Oxford undergraduate magazine COUTH...
...campaign was getting somewhere. New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby had "dorsed" the trend, proclaimed himself a member of the "Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives." Later, a smart copywriter for Gimbels picked up the idea, blazoned an eight-column ad for fall college fashions: "couth, kempt, sheveled . . . that's how college girls will look this fall...