Word: ids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write in all seriousness of "the erotic relations between speaker and speech." To him, language is fundamentally the language of love: man wooing meaning, down to the coyest nuance, the most maidenly scruple. Like a Kinsey of linguistics, Steiner submits his report on the current state of the word-id in these ten brilliant, slightly obsessed essays, successors to his most recent collection, Language and Silence (1967), and forerunners to a promised full-scale study of multilingualism...
Near the end of Three Thirty Five there are aspirations to the higher reaches of the imagination in a section called "Fantasia," which is illustrated with cartoons that are dull imitations of Don Martin and the "Wizard of Id." The high point of the book is here, a very decent and troubled look at four years at Harvard by a senior named Alex Swistel. So is the low point, a piece called "On Love" by someone named Anne Segal who shares with us an alleged Harvard student's musing on that all-important subject. The author approvingly quotes her friend...
...obsession with glamour and stardom that led Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back. Warhol's id vanishes behind his circus as his ego does behind his paintings...
Organized to discuss Polaroid's involvement in South Africa, the teach-in resulted from protest over the use of the ID-2 identification system...
Over 100 people rallied at Polaroid's main office in Tech Square last Monday, protesting the ID-2 system as a means for promoting a partied...