Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following Bicentennial Essay is the fifth in a series that will appear periodically into 1976 and will examine how we have changed in our 200 years...
Taken one by one, the remaining essays seem rather thin. Only Brown's essay can fill in their background. Robert Rauschenberg contributes a few clipped comments, refusing to let his years as Cunningham's manager and designer "be short-changed by memory or two-dimensional facts." His words seem flip until Brown's narrative tells how exciting was his time with the company and how sad and little-discussed his leaving. Similarly, former manager Lewis Lloyd's hard-headed opinions on how to run a company sound less obstreperous after Brown details Cunningham's peculiar brand of leadership...
...structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke in the painting of Kline and de Kooning...
...literary critic of broad erudition that Trilling achieved his greatest renown. (Notable essay collections: The Liberal Imagination, 1950; The Opposing Self, 1955.) In studies ranging from Jane Austen to Tolstoy to Orwell to Freud, he sketched a view of man struggling to assert himself against the forces of his society. In Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (1965), Trilling argued that "the primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment...
...young student, Carey Winfrey, now a TV producer, gushed to Trilling that he had "raised the essay to a level that it had not seen since Charles Lamb." Trilling thanked his young admirer, reflected for a moment, and then offered an answer that seemed a classic example of academic vanity. More likely it was another one of Trilling's wry jokes, and perhaps it was even true. Said he: "I'm not altogether certain that I haven...