Word: braved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell had to be brave to even attempt a poem so simple as this. There is no structured poetic theory like Stevens', between him and his subject, no fluffy metaphor to make the horror manageable, no "T. S. Eliotscotch-tape," as one of his memorialists says, to put the shattered lost world together again. And this is where Jarrell parts company with most of his contemporaries...
FINNEGANS WAKE. American Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, has made a brave effort to translate James Joyce's monumental work, and does remarkably well within the confines of 94 minutes...
...worst have been Moise Tshombe, whom Buckley thought the U.S. sold out, and Senator Thomas Dodd, whom Buckley thought the Senate sold short. "I, for one, announce," he inaccurately predicted, "the beginning of a very long period of bitterness against the gang of flagitious moralizers who conspired against a brave and simple man of distinguished public record and found him guilty by bill of attainder...
...This difference, between the hideous procedural "free speech" of Naked Lunch style con-men (do I describe the deans as well the Dowists?) recruiting researchers and salesmen for the adhesive medicine that burns whole bodies, families, and countries, and the apophantic, the real, I-thou, perhaps loving communication between brave persons, largely absent in Cambridge, Mass. as in most places I've seen, perhaps therefore a difference unrecognized by those who know one part only, this difference divides administration from a group of students...
FINNEGANS WAKE. American Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, has made a brave effort to translate James Joyce's monumental work, and does remarkably well within the confines of 94 minutes...