Word: kenner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week war of nerves began, while everyone wondered: Would the city capitulate in time for Mardi Gras Day? One by one the parade dates came around and the floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...
Heymann gives us a profile of the poet/man, and in many ways it is deficient. It doesn't try to clean up the mess that has surrounded Pounds life, the almost inscrutable clusters of prose that make up Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era, the incomplete information in Charles Norman's biography, published in 1960, 12 years before Pound's death or Noel stock's The Life of Ezra Pound, completed two years before the poet died. But for all of its problems, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower provides us with one particularly important piece of information. That at least...
Then silence "fell," as Heymann puts it, not quite as conveniently as it descended on Pound in Kenner's book, or as it seemed to pervade Pound's later life in Stock's biography...
...many visits to his friends and their nine children, Paul de la Haye's warmth warped one night last year; he sexually assaulted two of the young boys. He had had similar trouble before. After his conviction, he was sent to a California mental hospital for evaluation. Joseph Kenner, a divorced construction worker, had a history of aberrant sexual behavior involving both minor boys and girls. He had pleaded guilty to child molestation and was given a mental examination. Hospital officials pronounced each man "dangerous" with little or no hope of improvement. They were returned to court for sentencing...
Nonetheless, three doctors have now volunteered to do the surgery, and Judge Woodworth, at least, seems satisfied. Last week he delayed the sentencing until the castrations are actually performed. It is either "this operation or the ultimate castration of locking a man up for life," says the judge. Kenner, 45, has declined to talk, but De la Haye is voluble about his choice. "Look, I'm 47 and don't have a wife," said the widower. "So I don't have much of a sex life to look forward to when I get out. Sure...