Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gifted 30-year-old Canadian, approaches his rusty theme the way a junk sculptor approaches a scrap heap-with zest and spirit and an evergreen appetite for discovery. Improvising action and dialogue, Owen achieves a cinema of spontaneity. His film is choked with words, yet the words effectively express the jumpy, inarticulate restlessness of youth...
Aiken said that he felt the meeting's purpose was threefold. "In addition to replying to Rusk," he continued, "I think that we want to express our sense of the immense moral responsibility which rests upon the American government and people in the present situation...
...understanding of the voice is uncanny, and he learned it, as I am sure he would be the first to admit, at the knee of that greatest of English choral composers, Handel. Somehow, Thompson manages to achieve his end with tessituras that are comfortable and settings that not only express the text, but project it to the audience. I don't quite know how he does it, and neither do his imitators: no matter how much their progressions sound like his, Thompson's understanding of the voice cannot be matched. The Glee Club is often foiled...
Maybe so. In the French newsmagazine L'Express, a leftist reporter freshly returned from a month-long sojourn among the Communist Viet Cong, implied as much. Asian Specialist Georges Chaffard said that the Viet Cong are demoralized by continued U.S. bombings in the South, that their supplies from North Viet Nam have been rudely interrupted by American air strikes (as well as by malaria and dysentery along the Ho Chi Minh trail), that they are losing support among the people, and that the Communists are now regrouping in the mountain plateaus above Saigon as if for a last stand...
Writing in Commentary, William Phillips nai's the whole genre by devastatingly describing Burroughs' Nova Express as "the feeding almost literally of human flesh and organs on each other in an orgy of annihilation. The whole world is reduced to the fluidity of excrement as everything dissolves into everything else." And Critic John Wain adds: "A pornographic novel is, in however backhanded a way, on the side of something describable as life. Naked Lunch, by contrast, is unreservedly on the side of death...