Word: gautier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raising attempted by the protesters of the '60s, and weary too of the depredations of youth culture and the S.D.S., the noise of rock carmagnole and the further anarchisms of the "do it" ethic of Rubin and Hoffman. In the adolescence of 19th century Romanticism, the French Poet Theophile Gautier proclaimed: Plutot la barbarie que I'ennui. Now the American mood would reverse the formula: better boredom than that new barbarism. Says Sociology Professor Robert K. Merton of Columbia University: "What McGovern faces is a cumulative counterreaction to much of the mass protests of the last few years...
Large sections of Marihuana Reconsidered are directed to a general, non-scientific audience. A long chapter is devoted to early literary accounts of cannabis intoxication by French writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Gautier, Bayard Taylor and Fitz Hugh Ludlow. For balance, Alan Ginsberg is given equal billing...
...pothole of a tropical police state where the street cleaners lie in wait to cart away the appointed victims. These include some of the great romantics of history and literature, a sort of aristocracy of personal excesses: Casanova, Lord Byron, Proust's Baron de Charlus, Marguerite Gautier, and Kilroy, an American with a heart "as big as the head of a baby...