Word: kat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tobacco and alcohol is, in fact, discouraged at Twin Oaks, and all drugs, including marijuana, are banned. So is television, which is considered a cultural poison. "We decided that we just weren't strong enough to stand up to television," says Kat Griebe, one of Twin Oaks' charter founders and, at 40, one of the oldest members. "Its powerful message is that of middle-class American values, which we reject?a high level of consumption, streamlined cosmetic standards of beauty, male dominance, the use of violence as a problem solver, and the underlying assumption that life should be a constant...
...South Anna River?false modesty is another of the sins that are not reinforced?and there is plenty of folk singing and dancing. In a departure from Skinner's rather puritanical Walden Two, sex is considered, as one member put it, a "pleasant pastime, like anything else." Adds Kat: "We don't have a very high opinion of marriage?it often becomes possessive. We do have a high regard for what Skinner calls 'abiding affection...
Guston's obvious debts are to American graphic art, to "some of the comic strips I used to really love-Mutt and Jeff, and Krazy Kat." But the idiom is overloaded to the edge of portentousness. It is as if Guston flipped back to the late '30s, when he was a WPA muralist -those remote days when it was still believed that political comment could give art relevance...
...Seldes stirred a sensation with his The Seven Lively Arts, in which he argued that Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, jazz, the circus and burlesque had it all over the Barrymores, the Metropolitan Opera or the works of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed, he made a case that Krazy Kat, the comic strip, was the most satisfactory work of art then produced in America-all of which enraged serious critics of the day and titillated Seldes' many fans...