Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gentleman in the good old days would have known all the terms, "lest you should make some blunder at table, so that those who are wiser may have the laugh of you, and we who love you may be ashamed," a character in an Arthur Conan Doyle story says. Lipton threatens us with a simliar charge of ignorance: "The thesis of this book can be summed up very simply: when a group of ravens flaps by, you should, if you want to refer to their presence, say, 'There goes an unkindness of ravens.' Anything else would be wrong...
Over the years, Mumford has become known as a specialist in many fields--a tribute both to his vast learning and his stubborn refusal to confine himself to one discipline. Among the twenty-three volumes he's produced since 1922 are texts on Herman Melville, on the history of art and literature, on design and architecture and on moral philosophy. But perhaps his most famous and important work has been in urban affairs. Mumford was among the first Americans to study the problems of the cities systemically, and the ideas he formulated in the 1920's have, if anything, gained...
...there is a trend, it is toward the personal voice-the poet not only seeking his own identity but combatting society with that identity, the poet engaging the real world with more or less surreal imagery and ideas. Joined in that combat today are both well-known poets and those whose voices are just beginning to be heard...
...real complaints, and get rid of the "tiny minority" (as Ford calls us) who are simply "agitators." And that is essentially what the Ad Board tried to do, and was stopped, perhaps with its own collusion, by some combination of votes, the precise components of which will never be known...
Crumb's philosophy of life has been around for several thousand years. You either accept it or you don't. But even if you don't you can still enjoy the world that Crumb has created. Minor details are remembered, and are important - "SCHUMAN THE HUMAN better known as 'Baldy' goes forth with his fine mind to FIND GOD! And believe me, he took along a lunch!" Backgrounds add depth to situations-"Whiteman," the stereotypical businessman, walks down a street that has a traffic sign reading "Keep a tight asshole"; a frontier sheriff, who looks amazingly like LBJ, carries...