Word: phallus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the Student Union, the best-organized and most extreme group, there was the American Independence League, the Youth Committee Against War, and the Harvard Anti-War Committee. If the massive phallus planned by these groups did not always materialize, it was not because they had no supporters. In November of 1939 a Student Union poll of 1800 undergraduates revealed that 15 per cent opposed immediate inter-mention in the European war, and 78 per cent would oppose U.S. participation even if Britain and France were in the point of being defeated...
...sooner or later seems exposed to an icy draft from The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. He is a comical windbag, but unexpectedly the reader has the opportunity to see which part is comedy and which is windbag. The emphasis shifts away from sex in Plexus and Nexus. Without his fake phallus, Miller is a clown-the sadist of clowns...
...that's the trouble. Everything is just a little too hectic. It's more Jarry's responsibility than Zimet's. Jarry was a Frenchman who lived in a garret with two owls and a stone phallus around the turn of the century. He took a schoolboy satire of a fat stupid professor and turned it into Ubu Roi. It's a forerunner of nearly everything: epic theatre, theatre of the absurd, Bullwinkle and the Filthy Speech Movement. You can't cram that much into a play without its getting overstuffed...
...Sunday paintings of D. H. Lawrence have long been a source of licentious but frustrated fascination because few people have ever seen them. I put a phallus in each one of my pictures somewhere," Lawrence told a painter friend, "and I paint no picture that won't shock people's castrated social, spirituality." The London police obliged by closing up Lawrence's first showing in 1929. Now, at last collected and vended by Viking Press (Paintings of D. H. Lawrence; $12.50), the long-forbidden fruit proves to have been outdated by onrushing realism. There is a sampling...
...dreamer was three years old and he loved the gentleman Jesus. Then came his dream of the phallus-king. The dreamer wandered through a stone palace under the meadow, and there, behind a curtain heavy as earth, stood the king, his one good eye gleaming up from his faceless head. "That is the man-eater!" the dreamer's mother cried out to him in the dream-but did she mean the king or did she mean Jesus? From that night on, the dreamer could never find comfort in Jesus' name. The sound of it flooded him with...