Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS, by Vine Deloria. A savagely funny and perceptive book by a young member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe examines the modern plight of red men beset by white plunderers and progressives alike...
...people running those schools would like to see Cambridge change, they want to bring all sorts of modern industry into the city, with scientists and technicians and drive you out. Look at the NASA center. You know they're taking up all that land and they're not going to be paying any taxes to the city. No they're not going to pay any taxes, you're going to have to take care of that. You know there have been five tax increases since they announced they were going to build the NASA center here. There are already eight...
Though he underestimated the expressive element in photography, his eye would discover patterns in the world around him, composed by telephone poles or sharecroppers sitting on a porch. These compositions are most interesting to the modern viewer. His documentary honesty strengthens his more creative ventures with a spontancous naturalism. His scenes are not arranged like a still life...
...accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant to be received as an Epic for Our Time...
...this knowledge that ties Warhol's film to the others playing with it. In each the well-made formula film breaks down under the changed situation of individuals in modern society. Each film builds from a different genre and testifies to a different sort of personal change...