Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers can be made. First, every lyric poem is rationalized to some extent on its model. All sorts of syntactic oddities are permitted in sonnets, for example, because they fulfill certain expectations, while the aesthetic order of a poem like Lycidas, random as it may seem today, is regular in terms of its formal cause: the genre. A poem on a "deep" subject--a poem as catholic in its intent as Paradise Lost--has no one model, but uses and subsumes many. Berryman had no model for the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Harte Crane's The Bridge...
...chateau. They bungle the job, but meanwhile abandon themselves to a couple of amusing Godardian escapades-taking over a cafe with an impudent little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre in about nine minutes to beat the record set by a busy American tourist. The rest is pretty random stuff, discomfitting evidence that Godard's blazing love affair with the art of film sometimes resembles nothing so much as a schoolboy's crush...
Entrants were required to submit a postcard with their name and address but Miss Marel, wanting to be distinctive, used blue stationary with a gold Radcliffe shield on it. "They said they were just going to draw at random," she said, they weren't. I wanted to make sure they got an intellectual...
...procedure will not mean, however, that every project will immediately be reviewed. Government auditors--either from the department issuing the grant or from the General Accounting Office--check projects on a random basis. It could be many years before some contracts are looked into...
...before eventually shooting himself in 1961. In writing these reminiscences, argued "Miss Mary," Hotchner had used Papa's spoken words, which should be considered his property. But New York State Supreme Court Justice Harry Frank ruled that "spontaneous oral conversation with friends" cannot be considered subject to copyright. Random House will publish Papa Hemingway in April...