Word: se
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topical" [Feb. 24]. Yet among the authors appearing since Nancy White became the editor in chief are Cyril Connolly, Jean Genet, Robert Musil, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene Ionesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Lowell, Jorge Luis Borges, Heinrich Böll, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Francoíse Mallet-Joris, Pierre Gascar...
...movie stars filmed television spots to prove that they wanted to sí as well as be seen, and flamenco dancers hammered out special sí seguidillas with their heels. To be sure that no one missed the message, billboards from Cádiz to Catalonia displayed a silky señorita in an overstuffed sweater, urging motorists to vote...
Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...
...generations and sometimes centuries, a kind of prison. It is a prison whose door stands open a crack, says Lewis, but it is also one from which the inmates do not readily escape: "It is much more difficult to eliminate the culture of poverty than to eliminate poverty per se...
...only a grotesquely distorted version remains, with its talk about stamp collecting as anal and piano playing as masturbatory. "That belongs to an earlier period," says Critic Alfred Kazin. "By now, people know that the passions are real but not that readily symbolized. There is very little philosophy per se in this country, and Americans have been left high and dry by the evaporation of religion, but in talk about psychoanalysis there is a kind of authentic quest. It's an attempt to get back into philosophy in a roundabout...