Word: caesura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagination. She was a graceful colorist, seldom candied or sentimental, and never coarse. In those blue-gray distances of field and forest, punctuated by the silhouette of a horse (the creature's profile cut like a weather vane, as though by shears) or the bright red caesura of a barn, one sees the equivalent of perfect natural pitch in singers: an instinctive truth of tone, the mark of a born painter. At her best, she makes nearly every American "primitive" who has appeared since her death look postcardy; her own nostalgia, however tempered by cuteness now and then...
...these, it is evident that she is attuned to the way words balance one another. Sometimes this sense shows through as long as the poem lasts. A structure may emerge that is based on poetic techniques such as assonance, consonance, and half-rhyme; usually, however, the poem depends on caesura or the line of a story for cohesion. But Sagan also has a tendency to distort or forsake style for an image. Her poetry is most interesting when she is sparing of the picturesque language she seems so intent on invoking...
...Kind of Caesura. The North Vietnamese, said Nixon, are weaker militarily now than at any time since the war began. That is probably true, for enemy troops in South Viet Nam are operating in units of no more than platoon strength. Military action is near a standstill. One bored briefer at U.S. military headquarters in Viet Nam complains that the daily press release has been reduced practically to a single sentence: "Yesterday, U.S. aircraft flew B-52 missions in the Republic of Viet Nam during the 24-hour period ending at noon today." The lull may mean that...