Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sliced Cliché. But after all the tired titillation, freak free verse, exhausted experiment are sifted away, some gold dust and a few sizable nuggets remain. Sanford Friedman's Salamander (in New World Writing) is a sweet, sad, perceptive story of how a seven-year-old New York boy becomes a philosopher. B. H. Friedman's Whisper (in Noble Savage) is a softly sizzling portrait of the big-town big shot caught in the rat race and insisting he loves it. Joseph Kostolefsky, in the same magazine, refashions arty cliché with a lethal satire called...
...killing off the last College organization largely dedicated to having fun. With the advent of a ferocious academicism, administrators and even students have forgotten that spoofing authority, raiding girls' colleges, and generally raising hell can be a good and integral part of the undergraduate experience. It would be sad indeed to see the Harvard Band, the last practitioner of the dying art of being in undergraduate, wither away...
...carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
...unicorn nibbled its last rose, and left the garden. But readers knew well enough what they had seen. James Thurber, who died at 66 last week, a month after an emergency operation to relieve a blood clot on the brain, was an aphorist of sad truths who mourned his times with laughter...
...against a sudden chill in a foreign villa. Ambiguity, misunderstanding and loneliness followed him to the grave and beyond. As he lay dying in Rome, he would not have friends visit him because he would not expose them to the dreadful wallpaper. In its way, it was as sad a death as that of Keats-near whom he was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Uncomfortable for Keats, suggested Wyndham Lewis, one of the many artists who drew Firbank. The authorities dug up his body, reburied it at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura in Catholic ground. Firbank...