Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well at my table." Whereas the rest of the menu appears hopelessly verbose, its author was here perhaps all too brief, for, loosely translated, Catullus actually wrote: "You will dine well at my table if you are lucky-provided that you bring your own dinner, a beautiful girl, wine, wit and laughter...
...motivated or wrong - usually both. To back that up, he has compiled 407 pages of quotations and anecdotes, mostly from newspapers, magazines, books and anonymous journalists and politicians. For example, as evidence that Kennedy was not far enough left on an issue, he quotes Ramparts. To bear wit ness that Kennedy was not far enough right, he cites William Buckley's Na tional Review. Was Bobby too hostile to the automobile industry? A Pontiac, Mich., publisher is the judge. Was the Cuban missile crisis a defeat for the Kennedys? Nikita Khrushchev says so. Any source dissatisfied with Kennedy...
Donald Hall pointed out in his preface to a collection of Contemporary American Poetry that "the typical ghastly poem of the fifties was a Wilbur poem not written by Wilbur, a poem with tired wit and obvious comparisons and nothing to keep the mind or the ear occupied." The Wilbur poem itself was exemplified by one of his finest books from that era, Things of This World (1956) which dared to include sonnets, to talk about the soul, to cope with a language unselfconscious in its striving to acknowledge the Metaphysical poets or Romanticism...
When McClelland applies his undiluted wit in a series of Boggie tales, "The Great Goodison Toad Hunt" and other cartoon stories it's hard to remember his calligraphy, quality of line, pictorial images or composition, because you're too busy laughing. But they're all still there, and more...
...McClelland's wit can be as pure a statement made by line, with line and on the subject of line as Steinberg's. Only he would put a typically cartoon-sketched "California Cheeseburger" on top of a semi-Ionic column, carefully drafted in the most accurate "Architect's Projection" style...