Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS brand of poetry, consciously I should guess becomes something to move people. It becomes a tool of persuasion in addition to feeling especially if the poetry deals with social and political realities. Not only does the performer poet create life in the solitude of his art, he goes through the process all over again on stage: each reading becomes, at best a writing. Life becomes lived at the heightened level of art, just as art is given the breath of life. During his reading of a poem, the poet performer becomes the poem itself. The interaction between the poet...
...military goals. Typically, this antipathy is virulent but not buttressed by ideology or material interests; lower-class anti-Communists decry the government's softness on Communism or its deceptive portrayal of battlefield progress, but rarely do they make the positive commitment to keep the world safe for America's brand of democracy. Generally disenfranchised from the prosperity of America, they possess no sense of noblesse oblige. Often alienated and debased, they have no sacred national image to protect. Their own chances for economic advancement usually slim, they see no logic in spilling blood over Guatemalan bananas or Southeast Asian...
After an hour McLaughlin left the stage like a small child after his first recital. The audience, impatient with the wait for name brand Garcia, gave McLaughlin some applause, but it was certainly an inadequate response to a remarkable performance...
...that James R. Hoffa remains "tremendously popular" with rank-and-file Teamsters may or may not be true, but it overlooks many of us who long ago rejected-and have actively opposed-his autocratic brand of unionism...
...Nabokov's nine emigre novels, written in Russian mostly during the '20s and '30s, this is the last to be published in English. One regrets at once that there will not be more. Though a brand-new novel is promised for late this year, it will not be prefaced by the thunderbolt from Montreux, which has become customary in these translations, in which the author instructs his Johnny-come-lately audience in his older works...