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...months since he had rendered Joe Frazier defenseless and bereft of the title, Foreman had defended the championship just once-and that was against the obscure Joe Roman of Puerto Rico. Out of the ring Foreman had almost been TKOed himself by a flurry of personal and financial blows. Now, on the eve and even the day of his fight against a serious challenger, Foreman was threatening to be a no-show...
...FIRST came upon a style similar to Orr's while sitting in the waiting-room of a doctor's office. Appearing in the New Yorker was a single poem by Mark Strand called "The Room." It describes a place much like that waiting-room: antiseptic, empty, bereft of any outward emotion, full of silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace...
...they took in the heights--or depths--of the sixties. As always, The Crimson reflects the mood well. The ideology of the sixties Left is still there, including all its most unpleasant features--support of the Vietcong, willy-nilly anti-Americanism. But the tone has become ritualistic and tired, bereft of exuberance...
...Newport after quitting a deadly teaching job, it was like release from a hospital after a long illness. "One slowly learns to walk again, and wonderingly one raises his head." At the start, he says, he had lost his sense of joy and play. He was "cynical and almost bereft of sympathy for any other human being." When the book ends, with all those preposterous tangles easily, magically, straightened out, Theophilus is restored to affection for the world...
Transit strikes, blizzards and brownouts can make urban life an ordeal, but nothing hurts a city in quite so many subtle ways as a newspaper strike. St. Louis, bereft of the morning Globe-Democrat and the afternoon Post-Dispatch for five weeks, was painfully counting new losses with each passing...