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...Dance & Yell. To get art back to its proper role, Dubuffet argued, it must be "stripped of all the tinsel, laurels, and buskins in which it has been decked, and must be seen naked with all the creases of its belly. Once disencumbered, it will dance and yell like a madman, which is its function." Dubuffet became the leader of the art brut (raw art) movement, which dedicated itself to the proposition that the only art worth while was "spontaneous," and that those who are the most spontaneous are savages, lunatics and children...
Bing's undergraduate experience is presented in four acts, each describing one of the four years of college. The first three years rush along, like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly...
...wrote a friend. "Neither am I an unsociable hog." But when a feature writer wanted his views on art, he testily wrote: "I suppose you think I am . . . interested in art. That is a mistake. I care nothing for art." If a visitor knocked at his door, he would yell, "Mr. Homer is not at home." Gradually, Homer became so isolated that he had to hire a local man to call on him each morning just to make sure he was still alive...
...Adlai Stevenson started it. In a Washington interview, he angrily blamed the summit crisis on Administration bungling of the U-2 affair. Desperately, Johnson tried to keep the party peace ("This is definitely a time for America to unite"), but a partisan murmuration had already begun. Leading the rebel yell was Johnson's own majority whip, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who predicted a congressional investigation. "At the proper time," Mansfield promised, "we shall find out what lies beneath the confusing zigzags of official pronouncements of the past fortnight...
Winter Carnival marks the Hanover equivalent of Groundhog Day, and the local inhabitants come out of hibernation, wash, and take their hockey sticks to the game, to watch, yell, and pound on the boards. The din is terrific, and often the referees start making calls in favor of the home team...