Word: interrupters
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...wholly satisfied with the life of an artist. But in essence, the very existence of his poems is a resolution of his inner crisis. The poet deserves a great deal of credit for posing his difficult questions with such dexterity. All too often, contemporary poets feel compelled to interrupt fluent verse with awkward interrogation...
...years after he left Belfast.) These poems must be considered the centerpiece of Field Work, and are wonderfully successful in their fusion of reach and reticence. In them, Heaney also demonstrates that versification is not extinct. He chisels rhymes out of unlikely word combinations, and simultaneously knows when to interrupt his alliteration with parenthetical asides...
Conversation drifts to marriages and the cost of heating oil. Above the bar, on a color television screen, John Anderson talks with reporters in Washington about his campaign strategy for New Hampshire. I interrupt two men arguing about last night's poker game to ask what they think of John Anderson...
...people outside Nixon's inner circle -and was even wiretapped as a suspected source of press leaks. He now feels some regret over his role in helping Nixon win. During the 1976 campaign, Sears' tendency to drink too much grew worse. A Roman Catholic who will readily interrupt a poker game to attend evening Mass, he has since become a teetotaler...
...Colonel Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier, her upper-class but financially precarious parents, Clementine was a shy and teary child. But by the time she married Winston, she had blossomed as one of London's acknowledged beauties-and a lady who could speak her mind. She would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when the general testily said that the French fleet would like to attack the British as well as the Germans. Nor was Winston spared her temper. Once after...