Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through history with its murmuring of guilt and horror. We must cut ourselves off from the terrors of the past, and Ungaretti's prophetic, guttural voice is the sign of that attempt. And innocence, the breaking off of memory, is not a Christian innocence, not piety, but a form which affirmation takes. "Innocence," Ungaretti writes, "we have learned of what it's made. It has appeared before us, and kept us beneath its still vast wings, through the disorders of our lives." JAMES ATLAS
That was well over ten years ago, and now things aren't so simple. The Senators (with or without Ted Williams) no longer mean too much to me; friends are harder to come by; and, as I learned at Agassiz this week, Damn Yankees is not necessarily a form of instant ecstasy...
...suffered accordingly. As Eldridge Cleaver and many others, including lots of young girls, openly exhorted us to fuck such undesirables as Reagan, Daley, and the Chicago police, the word began to lose both its masculinity and whatever juicy meaning it had left. It became, in effect, an extremely derogatory form of "damn." And now even that meaning is being diminished. People use "fuck" so freely, and so many respectable magazines have decided to print it wherever necessary, that at least one writer in Esquire has used **** instead...
...Council also received last night a proposal of the City Manager's committee to study rent control and related issues. The proposal was in the form of an ordinance which asked that "every owner of taxable real estate in Cambridge who rents or leases any structures or portion thereof" be required to file a statement with the Board of Assessors listing the rent he receives on the property and an itemized accounting of all his expenses related to it. The rental statements filed with the Assessors would become public property. Failure to file the statement would incur a fine...
...lights its sets for black-white contrast, and angles his camera on them stylizes the film as strikingly as Zero. But l'Atalante's dramatic structure progressively reveals the secrets of its very full characters. Who could imagine, for example, feeling deeply sympathetic toward the spirit, let alone the form, of Michel Simon (of Botudu)? Yet Vigo puts him in places and relations to other characters and to the camera, which bring us closer and closer to him. Finally the wife goes into his cabin which is filled with souvenirs of the seven seas. Simon's pride as he shows...