Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history don, "chatter about Shelley." George Saintsbury, who died in 1933, is an early example of the disease of scholarship. "A journalist transformed in middle age into the most venerable of professors," he became for generations of students the "supreme exponent of English lit." He was also the classic exemplar of the winetaster theory of literature. Saintsbury, indeed, wrote with equal learning and authority on poetry and port but, alas, as if they were the same sort of thing. Pundits who teach poetry as a matter of the palate-or of professional gain-naturally detest and fear a creative...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy-or even the integrity-of the "classic" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System." I almost suspect this "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us-The Bad Guys-than of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...This the quantitative aspect of grading-we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get-this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classic and a romantic, but then, so may Dryden, depending on your point of view... In some respects, this statement is unquestionable true, but in others..." On through the night...
...them by knockouts, before earning a title bout with Champion Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952. "This kid can't fight," scoffed Walcott. "If I don't whip him, take my name out of the record books." Thirteen rounds later, Walcott was out, knocked senseless by a classic right. Marciano successfully defended his title six times before retiring in 1956, after a career that was as notable for his gentlemanly manners outside the ring as for his ferocity inside...
William Wilson, the second episode, comes as something of a relief; almost anything would. Louis Malle (The Thief of Paris) works some interesting cinematic variations on Poe's classic Doppelganger story, but Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot seem, to put it gently, out of place. The kinetic opening, with Delon running desperately down the street trying to escape from his own suicide, conjures up a proper air of terror that the rest of the vignette cannot sustain...