Word: karma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Literary critics often condemn an author for sloughing off responsibility on to karma or fate, and placing it with the characters themselves. But at best, people can control only their internal feelings -- and for all there is the omnipresent threat of the outside world, always readying itself for an attack. And Jaffe draws on this potential for violence to condemn 'modern' women who spend hours bemoaning their nebulous fate, who have forgotten how to step back, out of their walled-in worlds and realize that the most crucial goal is to find happiness and strength within themselves...
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...several loose "schools" of poetry provided some fixed points in a chaos of experimentation. A poet of the New York School, for example, was inclined to adopt his methods and aims from the French surrealists and Dadaists, while the Beats on the West Coast looked to the dharma and karma of the East for their inspiration. Today the schools have let out, and contemporary poetry has become a babel of idiosyncrasies...
...grand finale from the roof of new Quincy). Quincy House residents who don't like bagpipes might want to eat somewhere else, but Dunn plans to remove cat-, dog- and hi-finappers from the area, and even if you don't live in Quincy you might obtain some good karma. The ceremony, about an hour long, will start...
...Vietnamese attitudes. Like the heroine of the poem, a great many Vietnamese today believe that they are being punished for some collective sin committed in the dim past. The Tale of Kieu holds out hope that virtue will be rewarded, that free will can alter a person's karma. But it is a slim hope for a people who have known centuries of war and endured a series of foreign occupations. As Translator Thong writes in the introduction: "By an accident of history, the autobiography of a divided soul [Kieu's] has come to epitomize a moral crisis...