Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final sense of what poetry had been before the War: defiant, vociferous, marked by a refusal to acknowledge even the voice's limitations. Andrew Wylie read from his own translations, and Ungaretti followed each poem in Italian. Reciting "Tu Ti Spezzasti" ("You Shattered"), a lament on the death of his son at sea, he shuddered through each enjambing line, whispered, shouted, and collapsed...
Yale defeated the Crimson golfers last year, 5-2, in a match that saw the Harvard team lose four sudden-death play offs. The '67 encounter wasn't much better. The golf team fell, 4-3. In that defeat, the number seven man for Harvard lost his match when he failed to drop a 2-foot putt on the twentieth hole...
Styron handles objection with unnerving adroitness. No, Turner probably did not have a black wife, he makes no mention of one, the only evidence is a sentence in not-so-reliable memoirs published thirty years after Turner's death. Why did Styron push Nat's African ancestry back a generation? He had to account for white women are possible--look at the sociological evidence; Styron points to other slave revolts. Styron's voice adds an edge, he had heard all these questions before, he has answered them before...
...Puritan past. According to widely accepted tradition, the whole thing was whipped up by Cotton Mather and the lesser clergymen of a frowning theocracy. Before it was over, the story goes, 19 men and women were convicted and hanged as witches, and one man was pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result of a repressive fanaticism in the Puritan character. Underlying this modern attitude toward the Salem trials is a smug belief that since we do not now believe in the power of witchcraft, the existence of witchcraft...
...examine the network of small-town malice, envy and ambition at work in the trials, which the modern rational and liberal mind likes to blame for the whole Salem tragedy-most dramatically exhibited in Arthur Miller's grinding parable, The Crucible. A chapter sketching the life and death of Puritanism would have been useful; as Hansen has indicated, much of what is popularly supposed about the Puritans is incorrect. But Hansen has done two things admirably well: he has suggested how nearly impossible it is to see another era clearly through the accretion of prejudice and the changes...