Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DuBois, died self-exiled in Ghana just six years ago. DuBois composed the poem that here accompanies and reveals the hidden thunder of Bellows' Both Members of This Club. Again, it was DuBois who wrote the classic prose statement of what lies deepest in black blues: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation...
...same sort of savorless trifle, with John Forsythe back to the laugh-packed responsibilities of bachelor fatherhood. In this, his third series, he plays a widowed history professor from Iowa who relocates with his three daughters in sunny, funny Italy. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (ABC) exploits both the classic 1936 film comedy of the same name and the stupefying breakthrough in transcultural humor of The Beverly Hillbillies. Deeds is a bumpkin newspaper editor who unexpectedly inherits the financial empire of a robber-baron uncle and moves to Manhattan to redress family wrongs. In the first episode, TV Actor Monte...
Although Arts and Letters faced only three other horses in the Woodward, he proved himself. The classic distance, weight-for-age conditions, and the three beat older horses-Nodouble, Chompion, Verbatim-made the Woodward a true test of class. Arts and Letters appears a cinch for Horse of the Year, Majestic Prince notwithstanding. The Scientist
...racing community ponders a classic question this Saturday afternoon. Can a Kentucky-bred three year old beat all the best older horses in the country going a mile and a quarter? The answer is that the older horses do not have a chance...
...landlessness, an acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back: Billy calls him Captain American. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun-it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself, also long-gone. (Hanson: "This used to be a hell of a good country.") 'And he couldn't find it anywhere...