Word: oblivion
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...Agnew's principal candidates for political oblivion is New York's Charles Goodell, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War. Last week, after finding himself trailing both Conservative James Buckley and Democrat Richard Ottinger in the New York Daily News straw poll, Goodell preempted Lassie to announce that he would stay in the race despite his poor showing and the Administration's refusal to endorse him. Sometimes, he said, a Senator "has to fight the tide-when the tide, in his opinion, is running wrong, when the frustrations of our people accumulate to lead them...
...complete. One was Buried Alive in the Blues by her friend Nick Gravenites. Sample verse: "All caught up in a landslide, bad luck pressing in from all sides/ Got bucked off of my easy ride, buried alive in the blues." For pop singers, the alternative to a hit is oblivion. Janis Joplin had big hopes for Buried Alive...
Bill Knott has been reading on college campuses for years, but until recently few people here had heard of him or his friend and fellow conspirator James Tate, who was the Yale Younger Poet in 1968, and whose second major collection, The Oblivion Ha-Ha, appeared last spring. If you were at Harvard and were interested in poetry, you knew about Robert Lowell and Richard Wilbur. But no one seemed to realize that anything new had happened since. After all, Lowell was still writing, wasn...
Knott and Tate are not afraid to become engaged, or to withdraw, depending on how they feel. Tate's poems vary from the short, sly lyrics of The Lost Pilot to a newly wild and surrealist abandon in The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a book inhabited by immense animals and dreams within dreams. His terse, sensual allegories make deadly insinuations about our habits and fears...
...vision when he fled the duplicitous world of his mother's Hollywood entourage. But Marion was cursed with an intensely painful moral sense-he never escaped adolescent dreams of becoming a priest-which ultimately short-circuited his attempts to destroy himself and those around him in great purges of oblivion. BZ is equally disgusted-and so, it would seem, is Joan Didion, who writes of her allegiance with Marion in an essay entitled "On Morality"-but BZ lacks Marion's moral fervor. BZ is simply tired. The fervor has long since burnt away. BZ confronts Maria with the possibility...