Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Reston wrote on April 27, 1969, that "concessions made by faculties and administrators at ... Harvard to the use of force by campus militants have convinced officials here [in Washington] that justice is too serious a business to be left to university teachers and officials who submit to use and threat of force." But on the contrary, at the meeting of the Harvard Faculty on April 11, the resolution adopted by a vote of 395 to 13 said: "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deplores the forcible occupation of University Hall on April 9. Responsibility for the events that followed...
...right to expect faculty cooperation in making inevitable changes. But the report may face tough going in the faculty meeting tomorrow. Professor Archibald Cox has filled a minority report which warns that the Committee is talking "a wrong turn in the history of the Law School on a most serious occasion...
...industries met serious declines. Profits fell at Boeing, Lockheed Aircraft, LTV and American Can, among others. Steelmakers did not fare nearly as well as in early 1968. Aluminum companies, hurt by higher wages and other costs, have yet to benefit from price increases announced in January. Many of the airlines, weighed down by costly new wage contracts and heavy financing for new aircraft, are suffering...
Apart from a dogmatic, astringent manner, Miss Sontag does not specifically resemble Miss McCarthy. She is, for one thing, far more "serious." By comparison, the younger McCarthy seems a kind of Vassar gun moll, playing Bonnie to the Clyde of Dwight Macdonald and other Partisan Reviewers of the 1930s and 1940s. Styles have changed. The vices (and virtues) of cleverness have now been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play...
European Concept. She is probably the first serious, practicing literary critic not to assume the primacy of print. In pieces like "Theatre and Film," she constantly works to break down old critical boundaries like the one between "fine arts" and "popular arts." She has not only declared that culture is a single kingdom-Bach to the Beatles, Henry James to Bergman-but perceived and firmly insisted (in the chapter "What's Happening in America-1966") that politics cannot be discussed outside the cultural context in which they occur. This last is essentially a European concept, and her interest...