Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convincing victory over Tufts and Amherst last weekend. Led by bespectacled Ben Wilson, the Engineers boast a strong top four grouped within thirty seconds of each other. Northeastern has made considerable progress since an opening meet loss to Harvard. Even with inspired performances from top-level runners who dream of beating a McCurdy team, however, neither team has the backup strength to pull it off this afternoon...
...DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH and THE AMERICAN DREAM, by Edward Albee, are caustic comic strips of the American scene. In Theater 1969's deft revivals, Rosemary Murphy is chilling as the coldly hysterical nurse of Bessie Smith, while Sudie Bond is endearingly shrill as the Grandma of Dream...
...Manhood. Alas, when the real Freddy Exley stands up, he proves to be singularly inept. Drunkenly, he stumbles from one football weekend to the next. The games with their supermen provide the pitiful framework for his misspent manhood. He destroys his fledgling career in publicity. He finds that his dream girl personified the materialistic, castrating American woman. His weaknesses lead him to three stays in sanatoriums. Finally, he becomes a contemporary Oblomov, spending his nights and days on couches and beds, living in the marathon shadow world of television's cultural prefabrication, and talking...
...other than that I cannot see the pattern. It may be something like a movie, with each poem representing a frame that catches one particular mood or incident, but the movie is without a plot. Henry's life has no clear climaxes and denouments. Each instant is equal. "The Dream Songs" starts and ends in the middle of Henry's life. It goes nowhere and proves nothing, but that Henry is Henry and is still alive. The pattern, if there is one, may not be evident even to Berryman, and certainly not to Henry. Berryman says "its ultimate structure...
...shift I did notice between the opening of "The Dream Songs" and the end is a greater awareness of immediate circumstance. The Songs become progressively less like dreams and more like "reality," and one of the results is that the later books are more easily understood. If you think I am shirking my critic's responsibility to make the book clear, let me assure you I am: there is a great deal about this book I cannot follow...