Word: screed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Please excuse the little screed about "imperialism." To oppose the CFIA, it is first necessary to reject even the possibility of a successful development, measured in terms of the people of a country, by American investment. It is possible, I will admit, that after continuous massive doses of foreign aid, as in Formosa, an underdeveloped country can experience an increase in per capita income...
...dislodge the fine traditional productions of the classics but complemented them. The first playwright to add the magic was John Osborne, the Angry Young Man, an actor out of work and furiously out of patience with life, the theater, everything. The play was Look Back in Anger, an iconoclastic screed against the suffocating middle-class ethic and the coolly cultivated traditionalism of the Establishment. "When I saw Look Back in Anger" said an ex-pastry cook named Arnold Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned...
...excrement is of the poetic essence. After eight years on the bum, Ginsberg sat down at 29 and wrote Howl, a sort of abstract-expressionist Waste Land that established him overnight as "the Abominable Snowman of modern poetry." (Like that's the most, man.) Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind. Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies...