Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOOR by V.S. Pritchett. 244 pages. Random House...
...characteristic tone of Updike's prose is elegiac. He is, by his attention to it, paying homage to the world, preserving it, transfiguring it, declaring it all worth saving. One can quote at random from his novel, for every page has gems of observation, rhythmic and charming passages of prose. Only the transcribed stream-of-consciousness of Piet is ever dull or banal...
Bedridden for the past two weeks, an overdose of "Lox & Chitlins" administered heavy-handedly by chiropractor Conn Nugent induced repeated vomiting. Doctors called in prescribed second-hand ridicule of institutions, elaborate diction, convoluted sentence structure, redundancy and random scoffing, but The Harvard Lampoon grew increasingly incoherent and seemed to lose touch with humanity. Specialists flew in from as far afield as Michigan and Rhode Island, and succeeded in alleviating the patient's suffering in its last hours. Observers sometimes found it difficult to follow osteopath David McClelland's complicated juxtaposition of photographs, clever cartoons, nonsense and witty social commentary...
...today's practitioners acknowledge the pioneering efforts made by New Jersey-born Allan Kaprow, 40, who a decade ago began creating recognizable environments. One of the earliest was his 1962 Words; it consisted simply of random words lettered on pieces of paper that spectators were invited to staple at random onto the walls of a room. The idea, Kaprow explains now, was to create an intentionally sloppy, three-dimensional roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow...
...Since all candidates are listed on the ballot alphabetically, just by random selection about three of their candidates should have been elected," Munyon said. "But I guess those that cared to vote just didn't care to have a radical organization...