Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heat # 3, Eliot (E), Currier (C), Mather (M), Dudley...
Even though Ochs couldn't match Dylan's record sales, Ochs managed to gain public and critical acceptance beyond the confines of the Village. But somewhere along the line Eliot had to justify his contention that Ochs took the sixties along with him when he went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach...
THOUGH clearly one of Ochs' greatest admirers. Eliot doesn't avoid the painful facts of Ochs' last eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach...
...many deaths -- the Kennedys, King, Malcolm and Medgar Evers, Allende and Jara--Ochs lost the ability even to try. He pulled himself out of John Train with enough time left to see a few friends. Then, years after he died, he hung himself. In the end, Eliot leaves him with Citizen Kane's epitaph: "it's become a very clear picture. He was the most honest man who ever lived, with a streak of crookedness a yard wide. He was a liberal and reactionary....He was a loving husband -- and both his wives left him.... Outside of that...." Ochs said...
Cornelia H. Dayton '79 said yesterday Eliot House tutors have given review sessions for history concentrators. "There has been a sort of commiseration in studying for the History generals at Eliot," she said...