Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solanas collects the surfaces of reality in order to reorganize them as objects into a total social context, creating an essay form in the tradition of the far-Left Soviet cineaste Dziga Vertov (who said: "To make a montage ... means to write something cinegraphic with recorded shots."). Appearances serve as linguistic elements, his "writing" vocabulary, which means less concern with the purity of the images (i. e. dialectical compositions) than with their dialectical relation. Individual images of the bourgeoisie, for example, are never caricatured (ef. Eisenstein) in sequences of their normal activities that are perfectly harmless in hemelves: relaxing...
...Getino not only had to contend with the threat of political censorship and retribution-the film has not yet been allowed public exhibition in Argentina and private attempts are dangerous-they also had to deal with the high production costs of using film as the medium of their essay in the situation of a capitalist economy. They worked as cheaply as possible,using the most crude 16mm Bolex available, without sinc-sound or motorized drive (making their longest possible takes about 30 seconds). And to raise the money they worked in the daytime making commercials (many of which are exploited...
...editorial "Friday Night" in the issue of March 29 is one of the most greasy arguments I have seen put forth in your newspaper. While you have managed to acknowledge that the disruption was improper, it is evident that the main effort of the essay was to deflect attention from the immediate issues of free speech and violent repression, issues seen in the actual experience we have to undergo here in Cambridge, to unproved assertions regarding the war. What I take to be an oblique excuse of the disruption Friday,"...so must some uses of speech be prevented...
...Congratulations to Melvin Maddocks for his Essay on "The Limitations of Language" [March 8]. After 30 years of reading technical articles on biology, I am convinced that obscure prose shows that the writer is not sure of what he is trying to say. He is like the proverbial cuttlefish that is supposed to evade its enemies by disappearing in a cloud...
...Your Essay was pointed and perceptive, but you're talking about terminology, not language. Language is alive and human; terminology is stagnant and mechanistic. When "war" (language) can easily be transformed into "pacification" (terminology), then "right" and "wrong" (language) become matters of "rationalization" (terminology). Language like "open housing," "poverty" and, "My Lai" require people to take stands; terminology imposes no such moral imperative because it explains away conscience and integrity and thus makes man less human...