Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that even vast quantities of liquor cannot kill...
More than willing to forsake her anonymity, she has nonetheless felt the pain of its loss. People who recognize her in the street and ask for her autograph have always made her uncomfortable. Some of these people wear their hair like Barbra Streisand and display a glassy, communicant look when they see her, for she is a godhead in their most privately inarticulate reveries. Others who stop her are just impious strangers. They see her tasseled yellow blouse showing through under a South American skunk coat, her white wool slacks and dirty sneakers, her induplicable face, and they...
From the Willow. It must have been salicylic acid that Hippocrates was dealing with when he recommended extracts of willow bark-for relieving pain and fever. American Indians gave willow-bark tea for rheumatism and fevers...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that liquor cannot kill...
...flavor of an innocent past when poetry was thought to treat directly of such things as Truth and Beauty. When he accepted the 1964 award, with typical courtesy he gave thought to "the other nominated poets who were passed over."His pleasure, he averred, was "compounded with a pain." Then, characteristically, Ransom added: "But perhaps every pleasure is the denial of some other pleasure...