Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose, if not the reality, of heroism. "Ya wanna be a hero?" is a mockery, not a compliment...
Alloway, credited with coining the term pop, picked the late Jackson Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein. His choice was promptly amended by his boss, Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, who dropped Lichtenstein and Pollock and chose mostly sculpture. Displeased, the Smithsonian then turned the whole deal over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator, Henry Geldzahler, 30. Last week Alloway resigned from the Guggenheim...
When independence swept in, the omnipresent company was a ready target for criticism, or, as Unilever's African Group Chairman Arthur Smith recalls: "It was so convenient for some people to stigmatize the company." U.A.C. absorbed some severe losses, notably in the Congo and Ghana, but proved to be more adaptable than an African chameleon. Rather than cut and run, it decided to stay and grow along with a yearning market. During the terrifying upheavals in the Congo, Unilever men opened new plantations even while existing ones were being overrun by the Simbas. The company also opened up more...
...dead long ago (with the possible exception of Sixties) if forced to go it alone like the truly independent and gutsy publications where virtually all significant writers get their start. You can't really think that those four mags represent the field. Did you ever hear of The Smith? Poetry Newsletter? Manhattan Review? Ole? Earth? Probably not, because you live too far off the ground...
...Alfred University, Samuel B. Gould, president of the State University of New York, said the "disquieting element" in student activism is that "it is not often enough accompanied by the presentation of practical solutions to the state of affairs being protested." At Smith, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that "when issues are complex and ambiguous, as in Viet Nam, mass demonstrations run the risk of lowering the rationality of discussion...