{"id":1923,"date":"2009-08-12T09:38:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/tailfins-of-1959\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:39:27","slug":"tailfins-of-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/12\/tailfins-of-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailfins of 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\/interactive\/2009\/08\/02\/automobiles\/20090802-fins.html?ex=1265083200&amp;en=d150629fcb3ce168&amp;ei=5087&amp;WT.mc_id=AU-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M109-ROS-0809-HDR&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/cyclone.jpg\" title=\"cyclone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/cyclone.jpg\" alt=\"cyclone.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/cyclone.jpg\" title=\"cyclone.jpg\"><\/a>\u00a0<em>The 1959 Cadillac Cyclone<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, fantasy; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px\">The poet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/l\/robert_lowell\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Robert Lowell.\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lowell<\/a>\u00a0was heir to a New England literary tradition that included\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/herman_melville\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Herman Melville\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Herman Melville<\/a>, a connoisseur of the metaphor and the metaphysics of finned creatures. In \u201cFor the Union Dead\u201d in 1960, Lowell saw something sinister, even sinful, in the tailfin:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px\"><em>\u201c&#8230;.Everywhere,<\/em><\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px\"><em>giant finned cars nose forward like fish;<\/em><\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px\"><em>a savage servility<\/em><\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px\"><em>slides by on grease.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px\"><\/span>[<em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/02\/automobiles\/02tailfins.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at the New York Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\/interactive\/2009\/08\/02\/automobiles\/20090802-fins.html?ex=1265083200&amp;en=d150629fcb3ce168&amp;ei=5087&amp;WT.mc_id=AU-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M109-ROS-0809-HDR&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\" target=\"_blank\">click to view NY Times&#8217; tailfin slideshow<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Times \u00a0The 1959 Cadillac Cyclone The poet\u00a0Robert Lowell\u00a0was heir to a New England literary tradition that included\u00a0Herman Melville, a connoisseur of the metaphor and the metaphysics of finned creatures. In \u201cFor the Union Dead\u201d in 1960, Lowell saw something sinister, even sinful, in the tailfin: \u201c&#8230;.Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}