Word: mistressing
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BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, looks at the light side of a dark evening in the flat of a London sculptor (Jordan Christopher) when neighbors, customers, fiancee and mistress collide during a power blackout...
Velvet Verse. After three centuries, time has tossed up just such a poet in John Berryman, whose Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, published in 1956, is one of the best long poems in English since Eliot's Four Quartets. He knew Anne's limitations: . . . all this bald abstract didactic rime I read appalled
...mistress neither of fiery...
There is little real poetic content in her work, but enough to inspire Berry-man's vision of sexuality imprisoned by a tyranny of conscience. Enough, too, to make Mistress Bradstreet a valid foot note to the age of Milton and Marvell, the honorable inaugurator of American poetry, and one of the first female voices in literature to speak intimately and directly in its own behalf...
Historical Rush. The book comes to life most in the final pages, dealing with the missile crisis. Malabre, frightened and exhilarated, is in bed with his newest mistress, Noemi, when he hears the radio voice of John F. Kennedy announcing the quarantine. As army tanks rumble through the streets, Malabre reflects that Cuba is "no longer an insignificant colony, we've already rushed into history, we have the same weapons that the Russians and Americans rattle at each other...