Word: gaol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shima's waka, reminiscent at times of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, were inspired by a book of poetry sent him in jail by the wife of his former schoolmaster. Poetry writing has long been considered an effective form of rehabilitation in Japanese prisons. There are utakai, or poetry clubs, in all of Japan's 73 penitentiaries, with an average membership of no each; the number of poetasters behind bars is estimated at more than 16,000. *Prison magazines are filled with their efforts, and several prison wardens are famed versifiers. Explains the director...
...Negro rights, only gave further momentum to the giant sitdown demonstration still scheduled for the weekend. Despite the underlying grimness, the whole affair took on a sort of gaiety. Among the latest eager ban-the-bombers were Angry Young Man John Osborne ("I shall be happy to go to gaol for six months"), Actresses Wendy Hiller and Vanessa Redgrave, Playwright Shelagh Delaney (Taste of Honey), Jazz Singer George Melly, Poet
...winter's day in Philadelphia 56 years ago, 15-year-old Emanuel Julius invested a dime in a paperback edition of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. It was, as it turned out, the wisest investment of his life. As Julius recalls in The World of Haldeman-Julius, an anthology of his writings published last week (Twayne Publishers of New York; 288 pp.; $4). Wilde's poem did something to him. "Never did I so much as notice that my hands were blue, that my wet nose was numb, and that my ears felt hard...
...stood by his friend when Wilde's homosexuality jostled him from society into Reading Gaol. During Oscar's trial, he advised him to escape to France-there was a yacht waiting, he said, with steam up in the Thames. (Shaw suspected the steam yacht was hot air, just as Painter Augustus John thought Harris' Rolls-Royce to be, "like Elijah's chariot, purely mythical.") When Oscar went to prison, Harris defied a savage social blockade to visit the ruined man, offered him ?500. There may have been genuine courage in his conduct, but typically, two days...