Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morality of their parents. The central figure is Melchior (Howard Cutler), an intelligent young man who does not know what to make of his maturity. It leads him to questioning, and to atheism, where his friend Moritz (Toby Hurd) passes through posture after self-pitying posture spilling forth poetic gibberish out of nervous excitement until at last he is led to suicide. Wendla (Lisa Kelley) has an uncontrollable desire to be mistreated by Melchior, and a mother who still talks to her about the stork...
Philosophy cannot and need not make sense to the layman in every detail; excerpts from Aristotle or Hegel (or, for that matter, Einstein) may also seem like gibberish to the uninitiated. But it is significant that the analytic and phenomenological thinkers don't even understand one another...
...Married Woman there is a glimmer of satiric purpose, not only in the pronouncements of the doctor who tells Charlotte she is pregnant (what he says is abridged to gibberish), but also is the charming speech by Charlotte's young son, who gravely lisps detailed instructions for doing something whose exact nature is never specified. Yet the satire is no clue to what Godard thinks of his characters' emotions or their moral situation; it only shows that he, like any sensible audience, has doubts about their intelligence...
...planned to rise 70% within seven years, said Brezhnev, it had in fact actually risen only 10% in the past six. The solution he proposed, spread across Pravda and the delayed edition of Izvestia, was "to do away resolutely with subjectivism in the practical management of socialist agriculture"-Red gibberish which Brezhnev suggested meant a more rational use of "economic incentives" and "greater independence" along the lines the Soviets are already applying in industry (TIME cover, Feb. 12). Also planned: a massive infusion of new capital into the farm sector to the tune of some $80 billion over the next...
...their generation. By comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...