Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joys of Grass. Bolstering this familiar argument are 400-plus pages of statements, essays, papers, adulatory fiction and documentary evidence, some of which are impressive, some simply a drag. Composer-Writer Paul Bowles is present with a marihuana morality tale, and so are Baudelaire and Rabelais-under one name or another marihuana has been around for thousands of years. Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg weighs in with an essay on the joys of grass, which he wrote while smoking the stuff. It is safe to report that marihuana does not noticeably affect Ginsberg's literary style: he is as opaque...
Janssen's savage and savagely portrayed world is in many ways familiar. The lineal ancestry of brutish whores and demonic cripples, bloated dwarfs and twisted drunkards, perverted bourgeois and browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...
...come some 40,000 department-store buyers; there to catch their eyes are all the leading U.S. furniture manufacturers, who last week had filled up ten floors of the Merchandise Mart, decorated 700 sample rooms, and put on display some 8,000 pieces of furniture. Most were familiar. American buying habits have long been traditional and change slowly; Chippendale copies still outsell modern 100 to 1, and buyers with lots of money tend to want the real thing, certified antiques, rather than to sponsor adventurous new designers...
...toes comes skipping one of the cutest little velveteen-agers the public has seen since Freddie Bartholomew turned contralto. He has big brown eyes and pretty brown bangs, and in that silly-frilly Little Lord Fauntleroy suit he doesn't look a day over twelve. He does look familiar, though. No, it can't be-Tony Curtis...
...late Flannery O'Connor, whose death in 1964 was a severe loss to American fiction, is represented by a very long story-so long that it has been separately published as a novel. Wise Blood deals with a familiar theme: man obsessed to the point of fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...