Word: regionalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doing Nothing. The style of many regionalist writers generates inward pressures that condense the atmosphere of a time and place - for example, the palpable Dixie gothic of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Guimarāes Rosa's style is centrifugal. Shooting out to ignite the familiar details of the author's vigorous humanism, it transcends particulars and turns events into allegory. In The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest...
...Nose. At Cooper Union, she studied under Regionalist John Steuart Curry, but learned most from the Union's director, Austin Purves, a painter who is now almost forgotten. Purves insisted that the ear and the nose, and not the eye alone, were important to the artist, so he would bundle his students off to Klein's department store or the Fulton fish market "to paint things we could smell." Ruth hated it; she wanted to be a fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression of fear that...
Imitation of the regionalist pattern has already begun. Economically, regionalism has proceeded farthest in Europe. The European Common Market has completed its third stage of tariff reductions, accepted Greece as an associate member, and indicated a willingness to come to terms with Britain, the leader of the European Free Trade Area. European dreams of an integrated economy and independence in the Cold War may not be far from fulfillment...
...Arab League has indicated a desire to exapnd its economic authority beyond the present provisions for boycott of Israel. Under Soviet hegemony Eastern Europe has been a 'free trade' area for over a decade. And the feeble Ghana-Guinea economic union is at least an indication of the regionalist predeliction of the young states of Africa...
...suggest that regionalism will culminate in a universal merger movement would be premature. The world is far from the Orwellian prediction of a globe divided into three continental states. But surely the unconscious emulation of the super-state pattern perceivable in regionalist unions will have more influence on world history than boiling soap had on the life of Mark Twain...