Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem today, is regular in terms of its formal cause: the genre. A poem on a "deep" subject--a poem as catholic in its intent as Paradise Lost--has no one model, but uses and subsumes many. Berryman had no model for the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Harte Crane's The Bridge ("a set of lyrics") was out; Edward Arlington Robinson and Robert Browning were uncongenial ("I admire them, but I dislike them"). Eliot's Prufrock and Waste Land are disjunctive and impressionistic where Berryman's effort is continuous and expressionistic...
Berrymar has united academic and creative pursuits more successfully than most recent poets. His Crane biography is the work of a strenuously intelligent man wrestling with one of his familiars; his first long poem, the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet(1953) treat a necessarily arcane subject, America's first poetress, the "tenth muse" Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). It is a work of scholarship in fifty-seven stanzas that took four and half years to research. And his most recent book cangles whimsically with that ever less unattractive, increasingly charismatic image: the college professor...
Cameras & Chickens. The war's effect on employment has been significant. South Korea, along with 45,000 fighting men, is dispatching to Viet Nam 3,000 civilian plumbers, carpenters, welders and crane operators who will work for U.S. companies and earn ten times what they would have at home. As a result, 12,000 applicants turned up when the jobs were advertised. In Japan, the Yokosuka naval shipyard is jammed with U.S. Navy repair orders, and work is being let out to civilian yards. Both Taiwanese and Japanese plants are repairing U.S. and Vietnamese planes. On Okinawa, because...
...Crane suggested that the Council work through Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Camb.) and the Massachusetts Senators to get the federal government -- which will pay 90 per cent of the highway's costs -- to abandon a Cambridge link. He called for an appeal to President Johnson if it proved necessary...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 sharply criticized Vellucci's proposal. "We would just be pouring good money down the drain after other good money," Crane told the Council. "The emphasis should now be on blocking all Belt routes...