Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perverse vividness of death images, but from the appreciation of the life-images and from the oddness of the associations Wright makes. He links stone with vision and flux, water with destruction, bones with life in its most vivid state. And the collection is sprinkled with two-or-three-paragraph poems, in which Wright conducts interesting experiments with his artistic control...
...often extravagant--"hilarious and hellish little boys," he writes in "Old Bud"--but they serve to inject the poet's perspective into what is initially a third-person description. And while some of Wright's speech-like rhetorical devices might water down a poem, they add vigor to the paragraph forms. The packing together of lyrical sounds--as well as the repetition of words--creates a strong sense of unity in poems like "In Gallipoli...
...truth in it and for another. Podhoretz's version of Vietnam is politically ascendant. Only a few weeks ago, speaking off the cult at a press conference. President Reagan rewrote the history of Indochina to suit his Central American agenda. The idea, endorsed by Podhoretz in his concluding paragraph that the U.S. role in Indochina was "noble," "idealistic," and "morally sound" is winning converts: it must be denied and defused, and to do that it must first be taken seriously...
...said that the balloting "probably means more to Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig than it does to them." Seemingly unimpressed by the public's brave defiance of guerrilla threats, he added: "This voting . .. probably isn't going to be a significant chapter in El Salvadoran "history. A paragraph, perhaps, but nothing much more than that, because the real context of the country is terror." ABC balanced Wooten's words at the next opportunity, the evening newscast, when Richard Threlkeld delivered an upbeat assessment of the vote...
Wealth is not without its burdens, Kahn notes. In the same paragraph he reports that Jock had thrifty sets of golf-clubs and a servant to switch channels on his television set. Although no one bore him "jealousy or rancor," his wealth isolated him from other men. Kahn claims. But Kahn describes Whitney's social schedule as hectic and emphasizes that Jock drew friends from many walks of life. He had "a great emotional need to feel useful." Philanthropy filled the need but it raised the problem of where to send the checks. Yale or Groton...