Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full market price, as do most of the others in the store, which range from classic Dostoevsky and James Joyce to a fairly comprehensive collection of political and historical books. The Harvard Bookstore is a must for every Cambridge intellectual, whether of the full-time or summer scholar folk...
...Cambridge, restaurants run the gamut in their fare, their atmosphere and, of course, their prices. As in Boston, the best strategy is to experiment--the reps of Harvard Square restaurants are often deceiving. (Some Cambridge folk, for example, still imagine that Ferdinand's offers a quiet, intimate atmosphere...
...they have new status, or, rather, they can have it if they are wise. Part of the tax revolt, the outcry against Big Government and all the rest, is a new national appreciation of the economic system and the people who make it go. If they are not folk heroes yet, they can at least go to the Senate chamber, as they did last week, with pride...
...work is partly made of old-style popular allusions to folk and fairground art. Its imagery is redolent of the fun house, the ghost train, the penny arcade -these small environments of illusion whose hold on the imagination, over the past 25 years, has been so drastically loosened by the encompassing phantoms of TV and movies. Westermann can imbue a model of a building, a little ship's hull or a box with extreme suspense: one peers through the glass at a scene that resembles the inverted world of the fun fair, but concentrated (and made epigrammatic...
...novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow described the onset of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Some who grasp those charged serpents will themselves incandesce in celebrity for a little while and then wink out (goodbye, Clifford Irving; goodbye, Nina van Pallandt): defunct flashlights, dead fireflies. Thus they will have obeyed Warhol's Law, first propounded by Andy Warhol, the monsignor of transience and junk culture: "In the future, everybody...