Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ezra Pound was a contradictory civilization of one. He was the most original American poet since Walt Whitman, a magically imaginative translator, and a literary promoter nonpareil. He also produced more verbal trash than any other great writer of modern times, wasted decades advancing crackpot schemes for monetary reform, railed disgracefully at "kikes, sheenies and the oily people," called Hitler "a saint" and democracy a "swindle," betrayed his country during World War II, and in old age spiraled down through hells of paranoia...
...SUSPENSION last week of the Radcliffe dining halls' shop steward Sherman Holcombe following a verbal altercation with his supervisor reveals once again the myriad problems accompanying a breakdown in communications between the University and its workers...
Chances are that Penn and Princeton won't turn up with big rooting sections this weekend, but the games afford a good chance to practice up for Cornell on Wednesday. If the Big Red have a verbal edge at Ithaca, so should the Crimson at Watson...
Frye goes on from here to give two different ways of looking at popular literature, one as a "packaged commodity" that an overproductive economy, "capitalist or socialist" feeds the masses, and the other, "the literature that demands the minimum of previous verbal experience and special education of the reader...
...theory of society Frye develops to make the distinction between "myth" (the central canon of a society) and "romance" (stories on the periphery of a society). Again the argument is heady, based on Plato and Christianity's abridgement of the Greek philosopher to form a "hierarchy of verbal structures." In a quick and hopelessly inadequate phrase, this means some types of stories are "in" in a particular society and others are "out." What's accepted at one point may be unaccepted at another, but always the romance, the lowest form on the totem pole of stories, took over during phases...