Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Satire. The two dozen sculptors and painters exhibiting in the goldsmiths' 800-piece show have skirted this difficulty. They have ignored diamonds, sapphires and rubies, and in their place found quartz, jade and pebbles to set in hammered or cast gold, silver or bronze. Painter Jean Dubuffet, for example, sets a lump of coal in a ring as an act of intentional satire...
...holds-barred campaign. Attention was called to the fact that Gonzalez had spent World War II as a draft-deferred military censor, while Goode was a twice-wounded marine, the winner of both the Bronze and Silver Stars in the Pacific. After Gonzalez boasted of his perfect attendance record in the state senate, Goode dryly reminded him that he had somehow managed to miss 70 roll calls. Moaned Gonzalez: "I never figured they'd check that...
...most educators, classroom permissiveness died of overindulgence ten years ago, and the return to discipline is well advanced. But to Ken Reiner, permissiveness makes happy children happier and good teachers better, and at his Midtown School in Hollywood's Silver Lake district, he has taken it to new heights. The children may write on the walls, throw sand and food at each other, shun their classes and practice card tricks and wander about the fanciful school grounds all day, smiling at the wonder of it all. The teachers, wary of inhibiting the children, let them do whatever they want...
...recent years, he has posthumously acquired a band of devoted disciples. Among his current admirers are Edmund Wilson ("His books are extremely intellectual and composed with the closest attention: dense textures of in direction that always disguise point"), Sir Osbert Sitwell, who compares his style to "silver cobwebs," and Poet John Betjeman, to whom Firbank is "a jewelled and clockwork nightingale...
...market for silver cobwebs and clockwork nightingales has never been large. Those who never would and never will buy Firbank at any price include those who can't stand the affectations of others ("even my lungs are affected," Firbank admitted); those who like a story with a beginning, middle and end; those who find vicious or blasphemous a sketch of a homosexual cardinal; and, finally, those who ask that a novel should be about the sort of people they know or would like to know...