Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meyers' ingenious group portrait shows his subjects linked by a kinship of misery. Colleagues praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell...
...that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that if you lean in close to some people, you will hear the faint, possibly edifying beat of a different drummer...
...chance for Yale to beat Harvard in a game for the undisputed Ivy title since that game in 1968 when the Crimson pulled off that...
AFTER being struck by her husband, the Godfather's daughter Sandra appeals to Don Corleone's justice, saying "You never beat your wife." The Godfather answers: "She never gave me reason to beat her." The court's ruling, as certainly as the exchange in the movie, makes clear that a good wife fulfills her husband's needs and stays in line. Only bad wives get beaten...
...five interceptions. Ryan possesses a certain knack to lead crucial Yale comeback victories. Everyone remembers his theatrics a few weeks ago against Penn. Yale Coach Carmen Cozza hopes Ryan still has a few more tricks up his sleeve. When Ryan's hot, the Elis are a tough squad to beat...