Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before an overflow crowd at the VAC, the eminent English author spelled out his theory of "The Origin of Forms in Art." Form in art is shape imparted by human action, but unlike shape, he maintained, it has an esthetic connotation.
Courts have held that a parodist is infringing on a copyright if he carries the borrowing to excess, but Mad's barely recognizable parodies of the song lyrics, said Kaufman, fell within the traditional "fair use" rule. It could hardly be considered unfair that the Mad versions were cast...
Preaching Subversion. Young Communist intellectuals flocked to hear the daring professor. When Havemann boldly repeated his subversive opinions to a West German reporter, adding that "most Communist officials think as I do," the party's Central Committee condemned him as one of "those intellectuals who lay rotten eggs in...
Though he is Austria's most eminent novelist, Von Doderer did not become widely known in the U.S. until 1961 with The Demons, the half-million-word novel of Austria in the '20s that occupied him off and on for 25 years. In Every Man a Murderer, written...
No eminent Victorian's mantelpiece was complete without its little bronze animal, but even before Swedish modern had come along to sweep the house clean of dust catchers, such sentimental statuary had already wound up in the flea market. Most of it was indeed cloying bric-a-brac, but...