Word: sontag
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Kenneth Tynan once described the critic as a backseat driver who knows the way but can't drive a car. Unfortunately his definition does not explain someone like Susan Sontag--a critic with no sense of direction...
...these criticisms are trivial when one considers the book's basic fallacy, summarized in the over-discussed title essay. Miss Sontag argues that the concern of the critic is not to discover the "meaning" of a work, but to talk around it. She never gets around to defining "meaning", but one gathers that she equates it with paraphrasable content...
...went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about as complicated as a cornflake. Susan Sontag would adore...
...Susan Sontag: This girl is too much...
...Tiffany lamp is very "low" camp, Old postcards are Early Heterosexual, Scopitone's the rage, for those college age, And Miss Sontag's the square's intellectual...