Word: leacock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in this century, the humorist Stephen Leacock said the American innocent must prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...
...boys' club of cinema verite and anthropological filmmakers" made forms of documentaries which tried to be as realistic as possible, often even acknowledging the presence of the filmmaker, he says. This group included Gardner, who used to be an anthropologist, John Marshall, and Ricky Leacock...
Stein, too, says that a "school of film makers" influenced the Boston-Cambridge area. Leacock and Ed Pinkus, both at MIT, "taught a lot of people who sub sequently taught at Harvard...