Word: effluvia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come for Verne's idea. With it came a population of 250,000, cinder-block subdivisions, all the effluvia of a boom town and, last week, a million guests in a carnival atmosphere...
...Hoeydonck's panoramas are meant to show the effluvia that will float past the porthole or radar screens of future capsules en route to distant galaxies. In Radar #V, he covers the view with a layer of colored Plexiglas partly because it creates a bloodcurdlingly realistic mood of objects adrift on an uncharted sea. Van Hoeydonck maintains that he is not trying to frighten people. "All I'm trying to do," he says, "is be a kind of reporter of the future...
...horror of the "surging, ecstatic featureless chaos which is being set up as an ideal, in-place of the noble exactitude and harmonious proportions of the European scientific ideal." His own ideal was ancient Greece. "The dialogues of Plato," he wrote in Time and Western Man, "have not an effluvia of feminine scent; nor do they erect pointers on all the pathways of the mind, waving frantically back to the gonadal ecstasies of the commencement of life. [There was no] softening of the male chastity of thought...