Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER THE TIDE of pseudo-psychological half-theories of the late sixties, many critics have refused to take Arthur Janov seriously. But Janov's contribution is unusually promising, for it suggest a combination of psychological theory with theories of social consciousness and of linguistics...
...foreshadowing of a requiem we'll probably be too busy to sing, for an eccentric community, which Kramer calls "Clabberville," of western Massachusetts farmers. The book is not a romance; it doesn't try to win you back to the land with the cheerleading tone of some pseudo-Movement drivel. The book is personalized journalism, comprising 28 pieces which Kramer wrote for the old Phoenix. These are honest first-hand sketches of the blessings and limits of rural existence, and the book's problems, like its virtues, stem from Kramer's half-observer, half-participant, stance...
...must take root in a specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
...Locke, who poses the musical paradox: Instead of rushing eagerly to cherish us and foster us. They all prefer this melancholy literary man," picks up in the second act a presence he lacked in the first, and leads his zany band of pseudo-Dostoevskis. Paul Scharfman and Douglas Hunt, on their futile quest for literary prowess, dressed one and all in outfits inspired by Poe out of Oscar Wilde to rival the literary out-of-itness of Bunthorne and his "perfect" rival, Archibald Grosvenor (Marc Jablon). They all emerge, in Gilbert's words, "perfectly utter...
...convention, in five years the earthquakes will have destroyed the world, in the meantime everyone is dying of indifference and analysis. Which is more unoriginal, the critique of its technique, is moot. The amazing thing is that Lessing takes herself seriously. The language of "Report" may be pseudo-scientific, but mock-serious it is not. Lessing slaps on truism after truism with the plaster knife of all her wellworn and well meaning liberal convictions. Once again the saving grace of humor is absent where it is most needed...