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war against english the language: unstitching for naught
Is verbal usage simply a matter of social usage, an aspect of etiquette? … The war against the English language is thus a many pronged offensive, waged amid jungles of jargon, over oceans of Officialese, prairies of pedantry, mountains of … Continue reading
tasting honey: girl from the north country
Putting a shine on the human race. A Taste of Honey from Shelagh Delaney was hardly gladsome material. It was a chronicle of life in a Lancashire slum wherein a girl is deserted by her trampish mother, made pregnant by … Continue reading
period of adjustment: the young and the zestless
He certainly was a plausible writer, a bird dog’s instinct for the presently relevant theme. What Tennessee Williams did lack was a love for individual personality that was part of the fever of a true storyteller. In its stead was … Continue reading
tin roofs
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In 1955, Tennessee Williams’s now-immortal play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The cover design is by the incomparable Alvin Lustig—New Directions’s house designer/art … Continue reading
the wilde ones
The archetype of the socialist intellectual. The keen eyed observer, but missing a few pieces that would temper an interest in the problems of society with a less poetic palette of sweeping verse. Nonethless, there are some profound insights here … Continue reading
spearheading
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Spearhead New Directions, 1947 Design: Alvin Lustig Spearhead was an anthology of the best of the New Directions annuals published between 1936-46 and from other sources. It was meant to … Continue reading
imagine if you can: yes!
John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading
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name on the door: neck of the corpse
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) there’s so much stuff written about andy warhol, that it seems impossible to pop any new perspective about him info into a small FB essay like this. but, not much is written about his early … Continue reading
suave cool and hip in stereo
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) if you were suave and hip and cool and a young bachelor in the post-war period (the early/mid 50’s) you had a Hi-Fidelity music system. that’s where we get the phrase “Hi-Fi” from. it was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, andy warhol record covers, art chantry, don martin record covers, Ivan Chermayeff, joe meek, Josef Albers, robert brownjohn, stereo sound effects record, Tennessee Williams
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REMEMBER: ECHOES and MEMORIES
In his Rolling Stone interview,John Lennon said that it was pain which had made the great artists what they were. Memory, oh memory, what you do to me? /Today is all I really need to know. /Why do you have … Continue reading
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