Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live on his poetry and who is in danger of clinging to it out of self-esteem." For almost half a century he has been as consistently prolific a critic and commentator as he has been a poet. The range of his non-poetic work embraces a Communist polemic, Forward From Liberalism, that was chosen in 1936 as the book of the month by the British Left Book Club, as well as an account in The God that Failed of his subsequent disillusionment with the Party. He has written a wide variety of books and articles on poetry...
...enjoyed by the parties involved are substantial. From an Israeli perspective, even if such an initiative were to lead to a stalemate, the political gains would have made the move worthwhile. And if it did not lead to an impasse, the Palestinians could for the first time look forward to some kind of constructivee solution, and a new dynamic element could provide the momentum for a more stable Middle East. Thus it seems to me that an Israeli initiative is worth attempting. The timing could hardly be better...
...been done with advisers, obviously, but also with people like Senator Russell Long and Congressman Al Ullman [respectively, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee]. I would guess that it would take several months of next year before we could come forward with specific proposals ready for a congressional hearing...
Fortunately, Speedboat is not a casualty of the war on language. Adler's prose is lean, straight-forward and exact. The compactness and order of her language provides an interesting contrast to the structural choppiness of the book. Adler's control of her structure is also consistently good; in rendering the incoherence of experience, she never lets herself lapse into unintelligibility under the assumption the reader wouldn't notice. The contrast between her narrative control and the defiant irrationality of the life she describes effectively heightens the sensation of vertigo that Speedboat is intended to inspire...
Second, another apology. It's about the Harvard-Yale game this afternoon. Now I know that you were really looking forward to it, and I did get you tickets, as requested, but here's what happened...