Word: howling
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...given us one masterpiece, gets into the mindscape of each French colonial and transplanted African tribesman. He dramatizes their religious and political tensions with precise evocations of war and ritual, and he compresses his narrative to unsentimental essentials. The book is both poem and protest; more than a simple howl against oppression, it is a dirge for all the human values which oppression destroys...
Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell. William Carlos Williams Introduction to "Howl...
...ambitious "new journalists," the Beat Poets had already shaken the literary establishment by rejecting an academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...
Jack's triumph in the House of Lords is as grisly, brilliant, and heavy-handed as all his others. His howl for a regime of fear is again sheer raving lunacy that to his Peers makes epitomal good sense. The film ends abruptly, with Jack knifing his wife to the sound of a child calling for its father. One is left on the film's catapulted momentum: Henry the Eighth is alive and thriving, as the eternal idea of the British ruling class...
...FINAL first person episode is not a memory but a dream. Anna, who has been Agnes's most constant companion, hears weeping in the night; at first, it seems a baby's howl, but her own child has long been dead. She runs to Agnes's room; outside, Karin and Maria stand silent and motionless. She goes to Agnes, and sees a tear running down the corpse's face. Agnes asks Anna for Karin, but when Karin enters the older sister rejects the younger: "I want no part of your death...If I loved you it might be different...