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Butley teaches English at the University of London, but this is not a day on which he could possibly focus his eyes on a student or a lecture note. Alcohol has become the hemlock of his middle age; he gulps straight from the bottle and his self-destructive binges have begun to overlap. This is the day that his wife (Holland Taylor) tells him that she is leaving him permanently for another man. More homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness...
...father committed suicide and the memory of that event sharply marks poems such as "Tampa Stomp" and "Old Man Goes South Again Alone." The lines from a poem called "No" are very explicit, when Berryman claims that "I faint for some soft & solid & sudden way out as quiet as hemlock in that Attic prose." In the penultimate poem of the collection, "The Facts & Issues," Berryman states: Let me be clear about this. It is plain to me Christ underwent man & treachery & socks & lashes, thirst, exhaustion, the bit, for my pathetic & disgusting vices, to make this filthy fact of particular, long...
...both groups have been milking the consumer. Between March and November 1971, Nader says, industry associations have channeled $322,500 into the Republican campaign coffers. The White House has refused comment, since the case is before the courts. But Nixon doubtless wishes Nader would switch from milk to, say, hemlock...
...themselves. If he has a legitimate means of registering his dissent, the citizen cannot take illegitimate means or decide for himself which laws he will obey and which he will disobey. "In war, and in the court of justice, and everywhere," Socrates told Crito before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust." For each man unilaterally to veto the law would create anarchy-a kind of immorality of its own. The precedent of Nuremberg, it might be added, applied only...
...BUREAUCRACY The Wages of Truth The lot of the truthteller has never been easy, as the ancient Greeks proved by silencing Socrates with a cup of hemlock. Today's methods for muffling disquieting voices of candor are subtler, but no less effective. Take the example of Administration officials and civil servants who fail to fall into step with White House efforts to put a rosy glow on statistics...