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...really a question of not wanting to be part of a new mode of poetry," he explains, examining himself beside Warren. Lowell, and Berryman. "I just couldn't do it. That highly personal, confessional, loose form; Mr. Warren, particularly. Well, of course, all poetry is personal. T.S. Eliot was highly personal, but not in any direct sense. But Robert Lowell is personal in a very direct and spontaneous way; he's sort of making a public confession. I always think the confession should be in the confessional, should be private...
For a time it appears that Maurice will come down on the side of sexual conformity. He tries to yield to Clive's advice, vows to marry, and at one point visits a hypnotist for 'correction'. But at a crucial time on Clive's estate, Maurice spends the night with...
FORCED CONFESSION. The Constitution of the United States stands as a bar against the conviction of any individual in an American court by means of a coerced confession. There have been, and are now, certain foreign nations with governments dedicated to an opposite policy: governments which convict individuals with testimony...
From this prominence, unfortunately, it is all downhill. Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and...
"God lifts up his countenance to this united and lonely pleading of men in their shrouds, men beyond the grave, of a community of souls-God who loves man both before and after he has sinned, God whom man, in his need, may challenge, asking why he has forsaken him...