Word: cunningness
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During the Harvard strike in April, 1969, it sold strike armbands (which people were making in the Yard and passing out free) for 25 cents apiece. As I write, the store is displaying personality posters of Mao Tse-tung, Eldridge Cleaver, and other movement figures. In each poster a cunning...
Cunning Anthology. Words without plot. They are drawn from Malone Dies and Malloy, from Watt, Embers, Krapp's Last Tape and Waiting for Godot, but no seams show. There is an incident with a white horse, another with a girl, both long ago. There is an anecdote about two...
MacGowran's cunning anthology of Beckett is at root the celebration of man's fear and lust for death. "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringlv. The gravedigger puts on the forceps," or, "Oh I know I too shall cease and be...
Courage v. Cunning. Marine casualties in Viet Nam both dead and wounded stand at 97,500 compared with 87,000 in World War II and 28,000 in the Korean War. Because their ratio of combat to support personnel is high, and because they engaged North Vietnamese regulars on the...
Rats, for example, takes us to an oversized nursery in a Harlem tenement. Jebbie, "a fat Harlem rat," sits counting his money amidst a six-foot-high crib and ten-foot baby chair. It is quite possible that a metaphor of a man as a rat in the nursery of...