Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubles and the proper enlightenment," Lasik Roitschwantz passed up the opportunity of becoming Spartacus Rosaluxemburgsky. Adopting two saints' names in the hagiography of Marxism* was his last chance to stay out of trouble. Instead, he sighs the wrong sort of sigh ("a purely pathological phenomenon") before a poster mourning the death of a party bigwig; he is denounced for antiSemitism, mysticism and "morbid eroticism"-being in love. Furthermore, he cannot get the Chinese question fixed in his mind. He is jailed but eventually wangles a job in the Department of Animal Breeding supervising the production of purebred rabbits...
...libretto's moods. Except in its ingenious weaving of French folk songs into the dream sequences, the score rarely pretends to be anything other than expert incidental music. But that is enough for Composer-Critic Taylor, who began his career as a piano-roll puncher, vaudeville entertainer and poster artist, is not embarrassed to recall that he narrated Walt Disney's Fantasia, and thinks that U.S. music needs more corn to replace the "dry, squeezed lemon" of modernism. At 74 turning again to composition, Taylor says of Ibbetson: "I'd forgotten how good...
...usual reaction to mention of Henry IV is to think first of Falstaff (and the Cambridge Drama Festival has chosen a drawing of him for its poster) and second of politics. But these plays are less about drinking sack and more about ruling England (and Falstaff wants nothing to do with that, save as it gives him a chance to abuse the King's press and line his pockets with silver and his belly with food and wine...
Showing the Flagg Sir: In your June 6 issue, you state that James Montgomery Flagg's best-known picture was a World War I recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam, black-browed with pointing finger, "demanding: I WANT YOU." In 1914 there was a recruiting poster in England depicting Lord Kitchener, black-browed, black-mustached and with pointing finger, with the caption YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU. This was before your time, probably, but I remember, and I imagine James M. Flagg did also. JOHN B. THOMPSON Grouville, Jersey...
...last week Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter introduced a bill to stop the manufacture, sale or gift of any type of U.S. flag where its use might "cast contempt." It will probably go through, but until then, Haiti's peasantry will continue to look like a Navy recruiting poster...