Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gioia never lets you forget just how unaccountable to the poetry establishment he feels. "As an impromptu translation in a French II oral exam," he writes, Robert Bly's translation of Mallarme "might eke out a passing grade, but as poetry in English, it fails the most rudimentary test...it doesn't even sound like the language of a native speaker." Throughout these essays, Dana Gioia names names. Much of his observation is as perceptive as his criticism is scathing. He recognizes that "American poetry now belongs to a subculture." And to escape that status, poetry writers must somehow appeal...
...official: Paul Sarbanes has "privately signaled that he'll oppose the plan if the freeze on pay for federal workers survives"; Ernest Hollings "has hinted he won't go along unless we cut the deficit even more"; Sam Nunn "hasn't committed to the defense cuts, and without him, forget about it"; Robert Byrd "is dubious, to put it mildly, about any spending cuts at all, which means each of them is going to be a major battle. We've got to get some parliamentary rules that keep the cuts from being considered separately, but Byrd's going to make...
...forget--this time, the face-off is going to be at good old Briggs Cage, where Harvard sports an 11-1 winning margin...
...taken out of the show. I'm not sure that this is a better version. It's hard when you see your own things. Your except was terrific, except for my embarrassment over my own writing. It's hard to divorce yourself from being the writer. I try to forget that I'm the writer when I start to direct...
Most of us will spend the majority of our lives married, but there's a certain obsession with finding long-term relationships. Unfortunately, though providing an excellent sense of security, they aren't something someone can go around looking for. We often forget that long-term relationships are simply short-term relationships that don't get boring...