Word: formless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always there is Rome itself, giving shape and glory to what might otherwise be a formless fantasy. When the gates of the city finally close behind Jimmy as on a condemned playground, the picaresque hero carries with him two bittersweet truths: youth is short and Rome is eternal...
...Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.' " Despite its irritating quality, the formless formula works well enough in evoking the often simultaneous boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which...
...never adequately described or explained. Though as far as we know her she is interesting as well as plausible, she emerges as a collection of loose ends. Moreover, she tears the play apart. Her story and Dillon's never coalesce into one. As a result, the play is somewhat formless and wandering. It takes two readings, I found, in order to get a thorough notion of what is going...
...composer in the early 19th Century. Today, his works, with few exceptions, are praised but unperformed, the D minor Requiem being a case in point. It contains moments of great beauty, and dramatic power; but these are moments only, and the total impression of the work is that of formless wandering, held together by the text rather than any musical coherence...
Patchen is a big boy now, 47 years old, and one's initial reaction is to remark that the fellow still hasn't grown up. His work is formless, often maudlin, sometimes downright silly. Yet amongst his poems (and he is, or has been, a very prolific writer) are flashes of humor and even insight that make leafing through this newest volume a not wholly unrewarding hour...