Word: ephemera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood cocktail party in his honor. Back in his prairie years, he told adulating filmlanders, he "reviewed a thousand films in seven years for the Chicago Daily News." Someone asked what he thought of the Beat Generation writers. Said Sandburg: "I don't concern myself with ephemera...
...inspiration was science, and it raised the question whether any philosophy could be longer tolerated in a universe wholly without meaning and as indifferent to any meaning that the paltry mind of man might read into it as man himself was to the response that the ephemera might make to his own conduct...