Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FINALLY, death slept with Jim Morrison. He relished its dangling presence, out there; he wallowed in it. His poems coddled it, his songs evoked it, his interviews sensed it, his mind lived...
...liable to be more persuasive, and pernicious, in its distortions, evasions and half-truths than any other imagemaking medium. Accordingly, the same peach can rot much faster in a photograph than in a painting or poem, and is likely to rot all the more completely. Even the percipient mind that recognizes beauty in all things, and that understands how an artist's only honest task is to be faithful to his vision of that beauty, must feel suspicious and confused...
...MOST extensive American commitment to the arts ever undertaken, the Federal Arts Project was born in 1935 when Harry Hopkins included it--with separate Theatre, Art, Writing, and Music Projects--in his Works Progress Administration. Hopkins had two goals in mind: relief for unemployed artists and the development of American culture at a time of national depression--psychological as well as economic...
...British hypocrisy, and even audiences of the '60s were shocked by his placement of outrageous behavior in a conventional setting. Loot followed in 1966, and What the Butler Saw posthumously in 1969. Success liberated Orton's talent, and in the months before he was killed, his prodigious mind was bursting with what Lahr calls "gorgeous, wicked fun." What Orton might have accomplished remains a tantalizing conjecture. What he did achieve is clear enough, however, and perhaps Lahrs biography will bring him the American recognition he deserves but has never had, a memorial to the comic genius that...
...frame of mind marks a direct contrast to Carril's. But then again, these are men from different ends of the coaching world. Carril has lived with winners; he simply hates losers. McLaughlin knows all about winners, too--he coached for Notre Dame. But he never has a harsh word. Sugar coating often masks the realistic observations in his remarks...