Word: meta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been suspicious of the "metaphysics" of language and "meta-linguistic" problems such as how much language conditions thought and influence behaviour. Whatmough has instead worked with the actual substance of language as it appears in printed text or in a recording of someone speaking...
...high picture enraged many, as Dali's works usually do. But it is a major work by one of the ablest, strangest and least understood of living artists. Dali himself, with cat's eyes agleam and mustachios en garde, speaks of it as "a meta-pheesical dream." It took Dali six months to paint, and one syndicate reporter estimated that it also put $250,000 in his pocket. The estimate seems absurdly high, perhaps triple the actual price. Says Hartford: "If a quarter of a million dollars is intended as a compliment to Mr. Dali...