Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explore the outside world and himself, Jackson's lives came close to merging. In rural Harrisburg, the home of his mother's family, Jackson learned to hunt, fish, and read Nature. He became the "scourge of the woods, the predatory man." Away from the consumptive maelstrom of the inner city, he discovered a community of blacks which although as poor as that in Chicago had managed to remain "a loyal and righteous people." Most importantly, Jackson, a man who was to spend half of his life in prison or on the run and die a month before his thirtieth birthday...
...state of acceptance, that, in short, they perform a self-inflicted lobotomy. Yet the very instincts that caused men so condemned to abandon more extreme forms of resistance for the sake of their own survival in an environment that deemed them patently superfluous, also impelled them to resist. The inner conflicts and uncertainties produced by this interminable struggle of self against self extracted perhaps the greatest toll...
Allen Tate's life and work are a challenge to people who have stopped reading poems and an inspiration to those who have not. His creative voice, at times distinctly Southern, speaks of much more than a single region of the country. He speaks with quiet authority, from powerful inner pressure, not to please crowds or win notoriety, though his eighteen published volumes of poetry, criticism, biography and fiction have brought him many honors...
...reading Tate's poems we are struck first by the formality of the versification, listening to them, we finally begin to feel the inner rhythm, the naturalness of it, in spite of, no because of, the great care with which it was planned...
Summer Lightning. A tall, handsome, immaculately tailored man with a carefully clipped ____e of silver hair, Connally cuts a striking, almost theatrical figure. No member of Nixon's inner circle has his personal magnetism. He strongly resembles his longtime mentor, Johnson. There are the same drawling intonation of speech, the same earthy turns of phrase. Yet his features are finer and his manner smoother than Johnson's; nobody can quite picture Connally showing off an operation scar. He can charm foes with a wry, knowing smile that flickers as brightly and briefly as summer lightning...