Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best thing about it is that it has late poetry by the elder statesmen of poetry but it doesn't have that high seriousness. It's not pretentious. It's full of adventures, and you just never really know what's going to happen from one moment to the next...
Perhaps if I were more self-aware, I might feel, at this moment, something like the bitter resentment and sadness of a well-sated, not to say spoiled older child, forcibly weaned from the breast of plenty to make way for younger contenders for (my) Harvard resources. A close friend of mine, a visiting student, spent most of her time here reflecting on the premature graduation and delivery unto the outside world of the Harvard Student...
...appropriate at this moment to grasp for traces of Harvard maturity? How, in a Commencement reflection, can I defend the self-images so jubilantly assumed by myself and others...
...wonders of makeup or the right hairdo or giving up the institutional power of being health-care czar and posing for the cover of Vogue. The reason she finally got to that 60% in the polls--to that Sally Field "you like me, you really like me" moment--was that she had become what she swore she wasn't in the 60 Minutes interview: a long-suffering wife standing...
Fine. But what I really yearn for, as I watch the beautifully rendered 3-D graph that sprints across my screen in flickering blues, purples and reds, is a Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...