Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a renowned poet, the confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
...demonstrating that the animal lives up (and down) to its reputation. As the author discloses the secret life of Reynard, she scatters some surprises: dogs probably kill more sheep than foxes do; foxes are secret suburbanites, sharing the contents of the garbage can with raccoons. Kenneth Lilly illuminates the manuscript with meticulously detailed closeups accurate to the last, wicked grin...
...Lowell had freed his writing even from the conventions of approach which prohibited the use of personal detail as subject matter. The Dolphin (1973) drew heavily from his breakup with Hardwick and aroused critical furor. Lifelong friends of Lowell's--Elizabeth Bishop included--advised him not to publish the manuscript. He went ahead anyway and wound up pioneering a new poetry; it was confessional, elevated to art and updated by the new approaches to the 20th century...
Keller is entirely aboveboard about her firm commitment to the Core experiment, her next paragraph numbers President Bok, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Core task force chairman James Q. Wilson among those who criticized and reviewed the book in manuscript. For the reader truly skeptical of the Core's philosophy, her account is likely to be more historically than philosophically interesting, more rationale than investigative debate...
Lennon's death brought the predictable slew of tributes. In American, tragedy usually also means profit, and manuscript after manuscripts chronicling the Beatle legend found its way into print. Most, hastily written, were garbage. Thankfully, the editors of the authorities rock magazine Rolling Stone took their time and only recently released a collection of interviews with and essays on the most controversial Beatles. The Ballad of John and Yoko is a captivating work, at once passionate and thought out, loving and objective. And it features some of the best writing on rock to be found anywhere...