Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenderness, none of the possessive but touching love of a Catullus. His poems assert his genius, his talent, his machismo, nowhere celebrate the virtues of another. This is only fair, since Love and Fame is an autobiography. In it, Berryman traces his life from Columbia and Cambridge through an asylum to riches, reputation and religion. The book is in sections, each a stage of his life, and the poetry corresponds, starting brash and young, ending old and mellow...
...BERRYMAN of the middle period is the most appealing, perhaps because he is the most human. The third period is more introspective, almost Gothic. Leaving Cambridge, and growing older, he confronts his asylum days in "The Hell Poem." The immediate temptation is to compare this to Lowell's "Waking in the Blue," and Berryman suffers in contras. Whereas Lowell's great asylum poem is stark, blunt, terse, and brutal, Berryman's, though realistic, is somewhat verbose and not a little self-pitying. The degree of self examination throughout these poems is frightening, mirroring the mind of a man gone slightly...
...event in recent memory has more angered both the President and the American public than the forcible return of a defecting Lithuanian sailor to his Soviet ship last month. Simas (short for Simonas) Kudirka sought asylum aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant during a rendezvous-to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights-between the two vessels in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod. The incident resulted in the suspension of Rear Admiral William B. Ellis, commander of the Coast Guard's First District in Boston, his chief of staff, Captain Fletcher Brown, and Vigilant's skipper, Commander Ralph...
...merchant; he sold and repaired sewing machines. Nat's parents were poor. His father died when he was six, and his mother, who never learned English, had to work as a peddler to survive. She also had to send three of her seven children, including Nat, to an orphan asylum for six years...
...asylum, Nat learned how to play the cornet and was in the orphanage band. After he got out, he worked as hard as he could to help support his mother...