Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated The Waste Land to him) and even of Yeats. But sometime in the 1930s something went tragically askew. The man Eliot called "the greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing junk and glories into a multilingual magpie epic called The Cantos. During World War II he made pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome. Accused of treason and brought back to the U.S., he escaped trial when he was certified insane, but for the next twelve years was shut up in a madhouse...
...Wiligelmo and Gislebertus. But Dürer seems to have been the first great artist to act on the idea that response to different cultures is part of the creative process itself. His appetite for curios and marvels was enormous, and it filled his baggage with every imaginable sort of junk. Dürer once impetuously swapped a whole portfolio of engravings and woodcuts for "five snail shells, four silver and five copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral," as well as a large shark's fin that one of his friends, a vicar...
...traditional school I came from, you just sat at a desk copying from a book and all that junk. It was a big game to see if you could chew bubble gum all day and sometimes stick it on your nose without the teacher noticing. Here you learn responsibility...
Nickens has the frustrating honor of being a junk pitcher. Without blazing speed, Nickens succeeded with a jerky delivery, a lot of breaking stuff, and some tempting goofballs...
Appalled by the litter on North America's tallest mountain, the climbers tackled the hazardous job of smashing and burning junk and backpacking as much as they could down the trail. In all, they took 380 pounds of litter to a camp at the 7,400-ft. level. Despite their good intentions, the impromptu collection barely made a dent in what is probably the earth's highest, unlikeliest garbage dump...