Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this pagan country) betray the trivial superstructure which American beats have errected upon a set of basic and simple propositions about the society they reject and the values they seek to transcend. In short, the beat generation is a barren subject-matter, and the more one has to say about it, the more one becomes repetitious, boring, and obnoxious...
...with a misguided righteousness that very nicely constructs the mood for the rest. They are: Robert Schwartz, Richard Dozier, George de Menil, Travis Linn and Richard Fisher--with a special hello to Mr. Dozier. John Grace constructed the set; if he designed it, as well (the program doesn't say), he must be a very imaginative fellow...
...only Jack likes Victoriana. Of similar affections are rats, for whom Jack has no affection. Indeed, he has a mania, one might say. Where Jack's mania takes him is hard to tell. When at last an exterminator succeeds in catching a few rats, the rats start killing themselves off by eating gold leaf, becoming $100 rats...
Several weeks ago Picasso phoned his dealer Kahnweiller in a state of great excitement. He called to say he had just purchased "Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire...
...grass. At a critical touch they flatten elusively out of reach; uprooted blade by blade from the soil of context, their individual scenes and episodes wither. The authors of such books are easy to underestimate because they are so difficult to praise. Speaking softly on some quiet theme, they say little that is arresting, even when they are subtly telling all that is important. Russian Novelist Vera Panova is such a writer. Her subject: the day-to-day life of a six-year...