Word: byronic
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...strike at British military targets, then retreat across the border. Since January 1975, 13 British and Ulster soldiers have died as the result of l.R.A. attacks in Armagh, which Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees, recently described as "bandit country." TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron visited the embattled area and sent this report...
Michaels, however, says he does believe Marx's idea, not Byron's, even if this theoretical justification for his stories looks like a disclaimer for the cruelty he allows his narrators to display. The author cannot decide whether art should admire the powerful or the moral...
...catalogues the degradation in all this, but distinguishes, even in a corrupt social order, between those who are solely degraded--women, children, unlucky timid males--and the young men whose with privileges them to degrade others as well. The book's title expresses this, lifted from a letter of Byron's which tells of the poet's reaction to three executions...
Michaels here seems more interested in the brutalized reaction of the sexually compulsive Byron than in the plight of the executed...
...there is an ambiguity for Michaels. After quoting and explicating Byron in a passage of parodied academic exegesis, he writes...