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...fewest suicides in America and Northern Europe take place in December, the most in April and May. No one knows why April is the crudest month-perhaps because someone who is depressed to start with feels lonelier and more out of things than ever, when the rest of the world is elated by spring, perhaps because of frustrated sexual stirrings or nostalgia for happier times...
...which his beard causes him to be mistaken for a rabbi) is finally over. After drunken humiliations in which he is literally stripped by his wife and two mistresses, he is left to sleep alone. He opens the letter that should have promised innocence. It proposes-and in the crudest way-just some more sex. There is no hope. The poet goes mad. Innocence, which Critic Fiedler, in Love and Death in the American Novel, suggests is the basic American obsession, is just...
Pandora's Box. An unknown aboriginal people built the washboard-like excavations possibly more than 1,000 years ago, using only the crudest implements, without benefit of metal tools or draft animals. Their motive remains a mystery, although some speculate that the shallow channels lying between the ridges may have carried water to or from grain or root crops grown on top of the long mounds...
...does not lead straight to the divorce court. The median divorce age in the U.S. is 32. In the 40s and 50s, divorce is major surgery, and a man is reluctant to cut that much life out of his life. Besides, time sometimes taunts the older lover with the crudest of jests. Having roused the ardor of a younger woman, he may find himself no match for her physical demands and end up more ruefully conscious of his age than when he set out to refute...
...wooden sense of humor, for the dream songs may be one of the more successful experiments with wit in the language. The poem, taken as the whole it will someday be, acts on the imagination the way any good pun does, writ large. On the crudest level there is something cardinally and delightfully sylleptic about the fact that Henry can be both Henry House and Pussycat, Mr. Bones, the professor and the jazzman. What results is a comedy of tone. Humor depends on the way things are said. "My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist (women get under things)"; or from...