Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visual skill spares him from making just word games. He is coming to realize that source dropping can become as precious?and boring?as name dropping. As he could learn from another expatriate, the late T. S. Eliot, it is the poetry, not the footnotes, that made The Wasteland great. Kitaj himself admits that most of his catalogue explications are, he cheerfully confesses, "Red herrings." Though he greatly admires the work of DeKooning, Kline and Pollock, he objects to total abstraction. "I'm likely to be moved by what is peripheral to the picture itself," says Kitaj...
Poverty could be quite poetic, though (the shoot of a chinaberry tree has been planted hopefully in the wasteland), if it wasn't for Miss Kate, the spinster guardian who keeps threatening to have Henry sent back to prison if he don't give up that fool music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim...
...Sales, a slap-sticking echo of vaudeville who appears on TV's children's hour. The first time that Ed Sullivan booked the Beatles, O'Brian praised the act. But after the air waves filled with Beatle imitators, he called a halt. "If this vast musical wasteland, this sump, continues," he wrote in his column, "it inevitably will encourage young people to forget neatness, ignore barbers, bypass cleanliness and turn into a nation of slobs...
...remodelers were busy restoring to their original elegance dozens of 18th century row houses that had most recently been seedy boardinghouses. To the southwest, work began on a new shopping center at Eastwick, a 2,508-acre city-within-a-city that is rising in what was recently a wasteland of marshes, junkyards, trailer camps and crumbling shacks...
...Washington radiologists, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, have made an extensive, five-week survey. They report findings that seem to suggest that if ever men are foolish enough to pull the nuclear trigger-and fortunate enough to limit the area of conflict-the earth may not become a wasteland after...