Word: graffito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional doctoral program; he wants a sweeping, cross-disciplinary plan of his own design. Having already shaken up a 200-year-old university, Magaziner is not much intimidated by one that is three times older. Meantime, back at Brown, his impact can be measured by a widely quoted campus graffito: "Ira, please see me-God." "You come...
...agree that the graffito is a "sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations" and that for some adults, especially the introverted, it may be the only satisfying creative outlet. The crucial factor in graffiti interpretation is the tone. The flippancy is often mere camouflage for metaphysical anguish...
...search of other bars and other public lavatories. It was a typical field trip for Anthropology 2675-2, "Graffiti: Past and Present," which Reisner teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Though conducted with much low good humor, the course is anything but frivolous. The graffito, explains Reisner, "is always a sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations. It is a twilight means of communication between the anonymous man and the world...
...illuminate social or political frustrations. But more often the class will repair to a nearby bistro for a firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti may be the only creative outlet for some adults...
...furnace room of Herculane-um's suburban baths, the cordwood is stacked, ready to fuel a fire that has been cold for nearly 20 centuries. On the wall of a snack bar, some graffito artist has daubed a phallus and the words MA(N)SVETA TENE (Handle with Care). In a cereal and wine shop, jars brimful of beans and, chickpeas await the next customer. At a street crossing, the inscription on a pillar warns litterbugs that they can be jailed or fined...