Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent lady, is neither untouched nor particularly virtuous. Crimes of adultery and deception have been committed. Nor is the poet attempting either a temporary seduction (already accomplished) or (at first) a permanent possession of the Lady. The affair is intense; its emotions range from guilt and despair to real joy and momentary hope. Berryman attempts to involve the excellent lady in all of that intensity and emotional chaos. The guilt and self-effacement, he insists, should be shared as well as the joy; after an octet's abstract discussion of adultery and adulterers, then...
...going to pass out before I get going." Friends' trials move him deeply. In addition, since a 1961 auto crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments-and alcohol. He consumes at least half a bottle of Old Crow or vodka...
...each other's nerves, read about themselves in the paper and worry about being ambushed. Bonnie and Clyde indulge in a Robin Hood fantasy about their escapades. In one extraordinary scene they pick up a young couple whose car they have stolen, and take them for a joy ride. "You've probably been reading about us in the papers," Clyde declares with pride. He and Bonnie believe they are heroes, and they are. The legend they create is not merely a fulfillment for themselves but for the frustrated desire of the society from which they have escaped. Early...
...sorry for them because they dimly remembered the powerful joy that had been theirs. They wanted so much to experience it again. But that joy was not to be found on the trampled field or within the steel scoreboard--and certainly not in the dumb, sexless eye of television. The joy was gone, locked into the past, into that time of great achievement when we were all heroes in raucous love...
Detroit was rained out last night, and has four games, all at home, with a really tough California. Chicago has three with Washington. And there can be no joy in Boston unless the Sox beat he Twins twice at Fenway...