Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That first crucial grasp of language (which Percy dubs, for personal reasons, the "Delta Factor") is the object of "a mild twenty-year obsession" on Percy's part. It separates man from beast; it gives him a unique tool for understanding his condition. Percy associates it with another obsession of his, the sort of inexplicable, poetic joy that everyone experiences from time to time--this he calls the "Helen Keller phenomenon," because it is the way Helen Keller felt when, later than most people, she first connected the word water with the actual item. But he also blames language...
Wolfe has an astute eye for what he knows about: namely, the pretensions of art consumers and the stratagems by which the chic of New York use new art as a tool for social climbing. There he is on home ground, being in every sense part of his frothy and fashion-ruled subject. He was there. But he was not in any of the places where art was made or serious thought about it discussed. The world of production, as against consumption, is alien to Wolfe. Hence the scissors-and-paste flavor of The Painted Word. It is not just...
...tool to try to convince people that we haven't thought about what the implications of this report are going to be for Radcliffe and the Trustees." Susan S. Lyman '49, chairman of the Radcliffe Trustees, said shortly after the Strauch Report was released...
...LULU THE TOOL...
...original title of Lulu the Tool was The Working Class Goes to Paradise, a grand-prizewinner at Cannes in 1972. There is no good reason why it has taken so long to come Stateside-the diminishing market for foreign films probably has something to do with it-and even less cause for the U.S. distributor's cutting 28 minutes from the original. Petri obviously intended the film to have a slightly frenetic quality and edited it accordingly, as if to duplicate the nerve-shredding tension of a day in the factory. The additional cutting makes the rhythm...