Word: clownish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller Odyssey. which opened Friday night under the joint sponsorship of the International Association for Cultural Freedom and the Advocate. is as alive, quick, and visually sensitive as Miller himself. Snyder makes no attempt to study Miller's place in literary history, but shows him as the passionate contradictory clownish person...
Agnew is not merely seeking political capital in the South, nor is his rhetoric aimed only at Moratorium marchers and other opponents of the war. Rather, he is emerging as a kind of improbable mahdi of Middle America. His often odd, occasionally clownish locutions, rendered in a W. C. Fields singsong, are abristle with nostalgias and assumptions of what American life ought to be. Armored in the certitudes of middle-class values, he speaks with the authentic voice of Americans who are angry and frightened by what has happened to their culture, who view the '60s as a disastrous montage...
...their zeal, Tanzanians have turned up some curious threats to their cultural independence, and sparked a lively debate. Football, declared one letter to an editor, is "a degrading product of colonialism and elite European boarding schools. African culture never produced such a clownish performance." On the other side, an upholder of law and order wrote that "the Wall Street mob of American society that watched a busty woman is more desirable than the unruly mob that besieged terrified girls in the Kariakoo market...
Aligned Policies. Apart from the bizarrely costumed and deliberately clownish yippies, a number of friendly witnesses appeared before the subcommittee. HUAC's research consultant, James Gallagher, said that the Chicago demonstrations during the week of the Democratic Convention were "in line with the policies of Hanoi, Peking and Moscow"-which must mark the first time in years that Moscow and Peking have lined up together. From Chicago itself came two members of the city's police intelligence unit. Police Sergeant Joseph Grubisic revealed that "captured documents" disclosed plans by the demonstrators to heckle the presidential candidates, harass voters...
Stockholm's classy Moderna Museet knocked itself blue putting on a giant show celebrating American Popinjay Andy Warhol, 36. This earned the supreme tribute-an appearance by the artist himself, with his clownish protégée, Viva, in tow and cutting up for photographers. "I was going to send someone that looked like me," said Warhol. "It worked once before." So it did, just three weeks ago, in fact, when Warhol without notice sent a buddy named Alan Midgette to impersonate him in a lecture tour of Western colleges. The ruse wasn't uncovered until someone...