Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Village saloon and, while employed in a Yonkers, N.Y., carpet factory, finally realized that his metier was poetry. Thus the rough, unschooled youth of 19 set out to fashion his poems not for "the portly presence of potentates goodly in girth" but for the "dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth." Such a taste was bound to shock the fastidious Edwardians, who were still doting on Tennyson. Shock them Masefield did with such long narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy, which spoke of "painted whores" and "reeking hags" and "drunken, poaching, boozing brutes...
...followed the instructions in Chapter I (How to Get Famous Fast) and Chapter II (How to Stay that Way), you will by now have undertaken the defense of several celebrated ac cused murderers. If you are acceptably brilliant, you will have become famous before 35, as promised on the dust jacket. Unfortunately, regular reliance on the Big Important Trial (BIT, for short) will inevitably cause trouble. Sooner or later, you will take on one or two clients who get convicted. Danger lurks at such a crossroad, but have no fear. It is merely time for aggressive imagination...
With the weariness born of too of ten seeing grandiose plans turn to dust, much of the hemisphere's press was openly skeptical about results of the conference, which Rio de Janeiro's Jornal do Brasil called "nothing but words, timid words." Even while complaining, though, many publications reflected the new mood of self-reliance and independence inspired by the Punta del Este talks. Said Confirmado, an Argentinian weekly: "Latin America has proved that it rejects dreams and prefers at last to go to work." Endorsing the common market, Saāo Paulo's O Estado declared...
...many Hellenistic and Roman busts of marble that have survived we know how the ancients saw and depicted themselves. But the moist climates of Greece and Italy have long since sent most classical paintings (except those buried under the ashes and lava at Pompeii and Herculaneum) crumbling into dust...
...naked woman, body-painted like a Tiffany lamp shade, decorates the latest ads for Casino Royale; dust jackets for Madame Sarah and Louis Auchincloss' Tales of Manhattan look like so much leftover Alfons Mucha. From coast to coast, be-ins, folk-rock festivals, art galleries and department-store sales are now advertised in posters and layouts done in a style that is beginning to be called Nouveau Frisco. Unmistakably a vapor from the seething psychedelic dreamland of The Haight-Ashbury district (TIME, March 17), Nouveau Frisco currently has as its foremost practitioner Robert Wesley Wilson...