Word: sad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greenwich Village provide the bulk, with the ballast variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
...self-critical mood, 30,000 furniture makers and dealers swarmed into Chicago for their annual summer show last week and gave out some sad statistics. Retail furniture sales sagged 4% last year to an estimated $3.7 billion, are down another 10% so far in 1958. This year the average U.S. family will spend less than $62 on furniture, and 83% of all families will buy no major piece of furniture...
...sample of the conservatism that marks today's Democratic Governors. By vetoing the legislature's extension of the sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups by looking sad when he had to veto the school program that the sales tax would have supported. In outspoken contrast, Professor (of Agricultural Economics) Murray lectures that the sales tax is the only way to keep property taxes from "going through the ceiling," generally talks like a friendly revenue agent. Unless...
...real cool cat from East Desperation comes wheeling up to the village school in a real crazy short, and starts to stink up the upholstery. Man, he's got life with a belt in the back. He bugs the teach and rains the warden, a real sad square: "Man, you're draggin' your rear axle in waltztime." Pretty soon the hipster is smitten with a kitten who is all the way out and talking tight. But this boy is looking for more than a ball. He's hip that half the oofuses in this school...
...most obvious of Thurber's symbols is the dog. Dogs as symbols are not new, but Thurber's canines are novel in every respect. They are large and friendly, with sad eyes, huge ears, and long tails. They play the role of impersonal participants in the action of life, and are likened by many to the chorus in Greek tragedy. They represent normalcy in contrast to man. "My conclusions entirely support the theory that dogs have a saner family life than people," the author states. They do not mask their feelings and regiment their emotions. (For full treatment of this...