Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another modern poet might have preferred a single long poem to examine and express his emotional contradictions (Roethke's The Lost Son), or perhaps a series of poems less restrictive in form than the sonnet (Snod-grass Heart's Needle). But Berryman chose a sequence of sonnets, a selection which is initially mysterious: a sonnetter inherits elaborate conventions of expression so often used as to seem, almost invariably, stale and uncommunicative to a modern audience. Berryman enthusiastically accepts these restrictions and puts them to work for himself. A single sonnet is particularly suited to the elaborate presentation of one feeling...
Blurred Issues. As for Wilson, he chose to ignore the unpleasant pence-and-shillings aspects of his policies. Instead, he launched into a 60-minute defense of his socialist achievements. "We have stopped the slide to social inequality," he said, adding that he had switched resources from defense to social services-"the right priority for a socialist government." Outlays for education, health and social security had increased by 45% under his stewardship. Unemployment? He hardly deigned to use the word. "We reject the creation of a permanent pool, as they say, of unemployment. Our whole policy is to secure full...
...moment, Teddy Green is a car salesman in Boston. He is a pretty good one, too, with an unusual spiel. He tells customers that Fords are reliable and have great pickup-which is why he always chose them when he was stealing getaway cars. For Teddy Green used to be a bank robber; he got out of jail just four months ago. "I feel like Lazarus," he says, risen as he is from the living death of what was once a 56-year sentence. Unlike many ex-cons, however, Teddy has refused to mope, instead is coping by making...
...leader of the Zealots. "Could it be," asks Yadin, "that we had discovered evidence associated with the death of the very last group of Masada's defenders?" The answer, he feels, is suggested by Josephus' description of the last moments of Masada: They then chose ten men by lot out of them, to slay all the rest . . . and when these ten had, without fear, slain them all, they made the same rule for casting lots for themselves, that he whose lot it was should first kill the other nine, and after all, should kill himself...
...However," he added, "it may also mean that a person has failed to perceive his own problems or, having perceived them, either could not get professional help or chose not to get such help because of the consequences...