Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meter. He is forever arguing that poetry is play. He has the nerve to say: " The unacknowledged legislators of the world' describes the secret police, not the poets." Can high art be as amusing as Auden makes it? Eliot once said that the purpose of art was to entertain-and got away with the manifesto. Auden practiced that belief poetically-and for a long time paid the critical price...
...should omit the four years too, and the whole community revert to the Greek university, a community for inquiry where a person stays as long as he deems needful. But that kind of university also should not grant degrees. Maybe the time will come when we can seriously entertain such a possibility. But given the function of the B.A. in current American society, we would do many of our undergraduates a disservice to let them leave here without degrees. I am trying to be practical. Doing without "majors" would be getting far enough ahead of that society...