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...Energy is eternal Delight"-so wrote William Blake. This is the theme of the last 20 years of Monet's work. He apparently perceived in some intuitive way what science had just begun to formulate -that all matter, from Charing Cross Bridge to the lilies on his pond, was energy. And energy's clearest manifestation was the frothing matrix of light in which, hour by hour, the forms of nature were dissolved and reconstituted before Monet's failing, astonished eyes...
...Denying that he had ever said he would not shave until the Viet Nam War was over, Ginsberg insisted that "it has nothing to do with anything conceptual." Speaking sedately, as befits an elder statesman, even of the counterculture, Poet Ginsberg announced that he was making some recordings: William Blake in an album of mantra chants. "I don't suppose anyone will make any money on it," Ginsberg said resignedly. "It's of no great importance to anyone...
Beggar's Opera. Achievement such as Wild's does not go unnoticed, and one day in front of Old Bailey a betrayed colleague named Blueskin Blake tried to cut the Thief-Taker General's head off with a dull knife. He failed. In 1725, though, Wild was sentenced to be hanged by a corrupt judge (appropriately, on false evidence that he had received a bit of stolen lace). Wild died wealthy, though. During his career the reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author...
Princeton managed to tie the game in the fifth as the Tigers bunched together four singles and a triple by first baseman Doug Blake, but Harvard retaliated with three runs of its own in the bottom of the inning...
Evidently, in Mailer and in the Women's Liberationists, we are faced by people who are in the same prison but who do not agree on the future. For Mailer, after all, the prison is an existential state, a dilemma of birth, sometimes painful, sometimes sweet as Blake's "loss of liberty." But for the Women's Liberation Movement, the prison can only be temporary. Recognizing it as such is the first step to finding freedom; self-assertion and sympathy for one's own sex are the next steps...