Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing...
...from Peggy Rizza's fine review of Anne Sexton's latest book, young poets are finally beginning to cast off the burden of "confessional" poetry. Paired with Miss Rizza's welcome boredom ("you wish she would talk of something else") is Alan Williamson's careful analysis of Lowell's Notebook 1967-8. Like so many other contemporary writers Lowell has moved toward a merging of private and public theme that hinges on a more detached view of the self and more self-involved view of events...
...involved a good deal of clumsy commotion and perhaps a spilled coffee or two. The work crew must have collected a fined assortment of fallen articles from under the benches each evening: a few copies of Valley of the Dolls or Myra Breckenridge, maybe a Nat Sci 5 notebook, a Radcliffe bag lunch, assorted widowed gloves...
...tried to gauge the polities of a government, you'd never work for anyone. There are very few democratic governments around." (I am staring at his following sentence in my notebook to convince myself that he really said it.) "We look at economic processes as an ongoing phenomenon, regardless of the course the population chooses for its government. Development is something that continues regardless of government...
Claes carries a notebook everywhere, and his drawings have an immediate impact. Free, energetic, powerful, they reflect the man's intellect, brobdingnagian humor and conviction in his vision. In 1964 when Oldenburg was flying back from a trip to Europe, he looked at New York and "suddenly it seemed as if the city had gotten smaller or I had gotten bigger." The whole idea of scale started him thinking about monuments, and so he drew them. Not monuments in the usual sense of statues or obelisks, they were things that attain monumentality through constant use: a toilet float that...