Word: burlesk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretzel bending-which can now be recognized for the attention-holding device it is. Fresh, singular, vivid and intense, Cummings' verses recall the aim he once set for himself as a poet: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child?-No, I'd hit her with a brick.'" Cummings is still hitting his readers with bricks-but also with the flowers and the fancies of a unique lyricism. crazy jay blue) demon laughshrieking at me your scorn...
Among nervous city officials at election time memories are short and faces long. The political play is to the grandstand and every gimmick scores points. This explains the sudden crackdown on Boston's emporia of hotcyed culture, the Old Howard and Casino burlesque (or burlesk, in the Casino's cas) house...
Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement." His typog raphy is also sometimes a cover for irreverences - and occasionally for obscenities...
Down Hanover is another legitimate skin show, the Casino. The Casino, less conscious of tradition than the Old Howard, offers "Burlesk," rather than the more genteel "Burlesque." Boston's famed Watch and Ward Society and other public indignation groups take little heed of either the Casino or the Old Howard...