Word: zeitgeist
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...latch on to this long-hair schmaltz myself, and I think Paul Mandel did a swell job of showing up the Advocate for using the word Zeitgeist in an article. It's time these literary characters found out that not everybody knows Latin...
...occasionally lapses into technical obscurity. ("Zeitgeist," incidentally, a word which Hall tosses around with aplomb, "the spirit of the time"--this reviewer had to look it up and you might have...
Longest and most ambitious piece in the magazine is a criticism of Richard Wilbur's poetry by Donald Hall. Hall obviously knows what he is talking about and makes his case with a minimum of clutter, although he occassionally lapses into technical obscurity. ("Zeitgeist," incidentally, a term which Hall tosses around with aplomb, means "the spirit of the time"--this reviewer had to look it up and you might have to too.) Whether anybody cares if Hall thinks Wilbur will be remembered as a major twentieth century writer is another question...
...white and one brown, or one racing ski and one cross-country ski. This is the famous "Sturm and Drang" technique; it give the Skiman a chance to explain that his skis were carved especially by Ole, with an eye to aiding the Skiman's unique "left-handed Zeitgeist...