Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beard's climactic scene, an oral sex act, is not as startling or fresh as McClure apparently thinks. It is a continuation of the second act curtain of Albee's Tiny Alice, in which Irene Worth, shielded from the audience by her robe, seemingly displayed her nude body to John Gielgud, who dropped to his knees before her while she uttered orgiastic cries. Both plays might have been more happily served by all-male casts...
...find the fiction of mayhem crucially disturbing and very much worth the reading. The worst examples of the genre present the symptoms of our virulent malady in pure form, and a new Mickey Spillaine is not pleasant going, precisely because it has roughly the same significance as a fresh mass murder. The best books of the type offer symptomology, diagnosis, and like most good physicians (and all great works of art), a tentative prescription for treatment. Among living crime novelists, Ross MacDonald is simply the best of the best...
...never been heard before." This approach usually creates pulsating waves of excitement in live performances, but it often also produces recordings that are too long for disk jockeys to sandwich between commercials. Consequently, Cream have so far been idols only of the hip insiders; their one U.S. album. Fresh Cream (on the Atco label), has been little played on radio and as a result has missed the mass market (sales: 100,000 copies). But now that this country has been Creamed, all that may be changed...
What makes the final product so fresh and captivating is the skill with which Bearden employs his polyglot artistic heritage. His jigsaw Afro-American faces borrow their cubistic profiles from Picasso; yet, as Bearden says, Picasso in turn was inspired by African masks. Bearden also cadges tricks from Bosch, Brueghel and the neo-Dadaists, pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes...
Physical conditions have outpaced all descriptions of their squalor. Black-boards have collapsed; windows have been nailed-shut; classes have been packed into foul-smelling cellars and unpartitioned auditoriums. Teaching has taken place in areas where it has been a continuing struggle merely to breathe fresh air and to hear a child when he talks...