Word: ghost
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Robert Bronson, "the last great New England transcendentalist," is the ghost that got away. The author of Captain Hook's Gang, Sunday Mornings with Zarathustra and other poems, Bronson is something like a son of Ahab in corduroy pants. So long as he was in and out of psychiatric wards, so long as "his true sense of sight was anger," Bronson remained a darling of the Boston literati. But then-in 1953, to be exact -Bronson transcended: He found the One, the Oversoul, the Truth, the Great Zero that Emerson and all the earlier transcendentalists only dreamed of discovering...
Bobby Orr is making kids of all ages happy. The American public asks its sports stars for more than athletic ability: ghost-written books, snappy clothes, press agents, and shrieking girls are all part of the game...
...undressed the official TV newscasters (under orders from the ghost of Artaud) and had them take it up the ass from the Minister of Information, since that's what they like...
...heroic subtitle saved this speech for English audiences. O. R. T. F., for which Godard made Le Gai Savor, bleeped out every word except "under orders from the ghost of Artaud...
...heroes in the memories of most middle-aged Americans. Here, they are-the stiff-upper-lipped thin red line, brave, dashing, loyal and incredibly handsome. They always saved the day at some hellish outpost of empire among tsetse flies and assagais. Watching Conduct Unbecoming is almost like seeing the ghost of Lord Kitchener trouncing Lucky...