Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...POETRY'S always been pretty accessible to everybody except pipe-bound academics and critics, at first. The reason is probably that I've been following William Carlos Williams' tradition in writing in the living American language and speech, writing in the living tongue, rather than an imitation of a literary tongue....It seems obvious. I don't know why other poets don't do it....It's like poets do themselves out of their audience...
...have an obsession with [aging], it's an acknowledgment and a dealing with it. You know, Yeats had to deal with it, Eliot had to deal with it, we all have to deal with it. Everybody except idiots has to deal with...
...however, and no credentials except a Nicaraguan visa, a liberal arts education, and a long record of drug-peddling arrests. In the eyes of society, I was untrustworthy and unemployable. So I took the only job I could get: airport security...
...compromising? "The President must go about things in a more conciliatory fashion," says White House Pollster Richard Wirthlin. "His proposals must be made in a focused, targeted way. It will be critical to take a few important goals and to drive them hard." Some observers doubt that the Reaganauts, except perhaps for the President himself, have any great gift for the art of political compromise. Indeed, just about the only aide left in Reagan's inner circle who is adept at handling Congress, Mitch Daniels, may leave the Administration soon. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute...
Nonetheless, last night's loss has no bearing--except, of course, a psychological one--on Harvard's NCAA program. The booters host Yale in NCAA action tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m., with the winner advancing to second-round play against Boston University November...