Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Congress did not intend in the Selective Service Law of 1967 to deny court appeal to men entitled to exemptions by statute. The law restricted the right of men to go to court to challenge the actions of their draft boards. Divinity students, persons under 19 years of age, military veterans, members of the National Guard and the Reserves, and sole surviving sons are affected by the high court decision...
Respectful of his heritage, Wilbur stood patiently last week before a lot of people who like Norman Mailer and Sylvia Plath (which is alright!) and read like a poet exhausted by the age. At dinner, he'd said something about growing "older and more vulgar," but in Burr he seemed young, and strangely erudite. Introducing one of his poems, "A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa," he dismissed the question of "transcendance and acceptance" as "sounding too much like a critic," but at other moments talked offhandedly of Pascal ("The spirit doesn't have any business denying things...
...that nothing good is being written, but only that American poetry has become more diffuse and less identifiable. The fascination of its origins and of its other possibilities. Wilbur is really about the only poet writing now who refuses to relinquish language entirely to the age, but insists on keeping it "Preserved as by no hero's pains...
...only sexual experience being with another black man. He has a Moynihan-style one-parent family. His mother is much contented with her life as a house slave. He leads a life of loneliness and frustration during his childhood, thoroughly cut off from other children his age. He receives all of his education from whites...
...historical evidence whatsoever that Turner or any of his men had sexual interests in white women. However, in the entire book, which spans the length of his life, only three black women are shown. The first is Turner's grandmother, a freshly captured slave who dies at age 14 after giving birth to Turner's mother. The grandmother is portrayed as a noble, if bestial and uncomprehending, savage. Turner's mother is shown as an ignorant, narrow, self-satisfied women. Not only is she proud to be a house slave of the Turner family, she accepts being raped...