Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Responsibilities was, at the very least, discouraging. Aside from the specific problems with its composition and procedures, the CRR stands as a symbol of the Faculty's paternalistic, perhaps even repressive attitude toward students. By bowing to the Faculty's desire that the CRR's kangaroo courts attain a veneer of legitimacy through token student participation, the freshmen who voted to end the boycott displayed a sadly misplaced confidence in the good will of the Faculty...
That's fanaticism. And Henry Miller is not fanatic about anything, not even sex. Curiously enough, under the macho veneer of the critic's voice lies a kind of prudery. That Miller sublimates murderous inclinations into lust is plausible. But this camphorous old wives' tale--or old codger's tale, say--evinces fear of female sexuality. Mailer's near hysterical protestation of a woman's weakness fronts for an appalled reaction to her spongy, devouring vagina and the ballooning mystery of her womb...
...accept the news of an acquaintance's death, unless our noses are rubbed in it, but how casually we observed his life." That is easy to say but hard to mean, and Hoagland clearly means it. He has traveled and thought hard, usually in solitude, without allowing the veneer of his own sophistication to clog his responses. He is unembarrassed by awe and un abashedly thrilled by the panorama of mortal creations that the world provides...
...context of the play it is difficult to figure out why this is so. Admittedly he has a childlike vulnerability that makes him attractive but there is nothing really admirable in his character. He is spoiled and self-centered. There are hints that beneath the pretentious veneer hides a warm and sympathetic man. But these remain only hints...
Look. The guts have have been carved out of this huge, high-ceilinged warehouse and the walls have been painted bright blue. A plush veneer--carpets, mirrors, glittered cushions--has been splashed over the walls and floors. In the middle, in the big empty space, people are dancing. From up above them seem one pulsating mass--a motley, throbbing protoplasm that expands and contracts in rhythm to the newest disco song. As the music reaches fever pitch, it threatens to engulf the upper mezzanines, slide out to the hallway, push itself out the door and burst smokily all over Lansdowne...