alienation

[Jonathan Lighter]

The book was published in '65. The relevant chapter was written in and is
explicitly dated as 1955. It discusses movies like _The Wild One_ and
_Blackboard Jungle_. The quoted sentence is indispensible to the discussion.

JL

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > A few months ago I scored OED's failure to recognize the broad,
> non-Marxist
> > sense of "alienation."  Here's an "early" ex."
> >
> > 1955 in Pauline Kael _I Lost It at the Movies_ (Boston: Little, Brown)
> 46:
> > Alienation, the central theme of modern literature, has, like everything
> > else, entered mass culture.
>
> Guessing that's 1965?
>
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