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Erik Erikson, one of the idols of this college generation (his books are required reading at 800 colleges), coined the term "identity crisis" to describe the internal revolution experienced at this time of life. Probably few terms have come back to haunt their progenitor more perniciously than this one. Whenever a sophisticated adolescent scents trouble from an authority figure, he tends to justify himself on the ground of validity of his "identity crisis," and on this basis, to demand acceptance and even succor. In a way, this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated...
...Beatles are putting down everyone--the eggman (the primordial progenitor of mankind) and also the eggmen, all the people walking around today producing and propagating. We're all Lewis Carroll's walrus, crying while we destroy the young but destroying them anyway...
A.F.P. is the direct descendant of the Havas news agency, the stodgy progenitor of all agency reporting, established in 1835 by Charles Havas. Used by the Germans for their own purposes, mostly propaganda, during World War II, the agency was forced to start from scratch as a government enterprise in 1944 under the name Agence France Presse. It played a slow, largely interpretive fourth flute to AP, UPI and Reuters for a decade...
...reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible that your man owns all these words as an integral part of his vocabulary...
Hypnotic & Glossy. Just as Charles W. ruled over the family, so the show is dominated by the near-Olympian progenitor who completed more than 1,000 pictures and sired 17 offspring by three successive wives (he died at 85, busy courting a fourth). A man of plain-spun charm, he had fought and wintered at Valley Forge, painted George and Martha Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Lafayette and many of the other great men of the day in a style renowned for its affable simplicity. Like his lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, he was an enthusiastic naturalist and inventor, experimented with everything from...