Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is a kind of art--playful art let us call it--that is becoming more and more popular as the West declines. This kind of art--it includes Camp, Pop, and a lot of other things I'll talk about later--creates a nervousness in reviewers, an anxiety that the artist is trying to take him in, or put something over on him; he fears he is going to make an ass of himself...
...serious and it's not serious." You understand? Of course. This kind of consciousness has produced a lot of the art of our time, playful art as I have called it. It includes Camp to start with though it is greater than Camp. It includes Pop Art. ("Why that looks like a picture of a soup can, Karen." "Well it is a picture of a soup can." "Oh.") But it is greater than Pop Art. Richard Lester is in the tradition. Bob Dylan is part of it; the Bob Dylan that Joan Baez called the Dada King. (Everybody Must...
...with different styles. The Beatles version is the one most of us probably remember of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven," or Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold on Me." Or "Please, Mr. Postman." Or "Act Naturally." They were the first to turn us on to a lot of things we later grew to love for their own sake. But their version was always something special. There was a quality of ironic distance or dual consciousness in their version. It was a sense of the Beatles playing wholeheartedly at the being black, at being Chuck Berry, at being...
...remember that Rudd isn't a speechmaker, and that what is easy to pick apart with careful semantics on the clear white page of the newspaper sounds a lot better when Rudd says it into a bullhorn under the towering buildings that make up Columbia's campus. Rudd is a revolutionary leader, and a pretty good one. Using the kind of movement jargon that keeps the revolutionaries at home with each other (such as calling everyone "brother") and by taking a tough stand against all "undemocratic" institutions at Columbia, he has held the Left together...
...Columbia Left, then, initiates the action. If they take over a building, they then see if the liberals will decide to follow. If they don't get enough general support, the Left gives a little; but this way they don't have to spend a lot of time voting and deciding in the beginning...