Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pessimism may be the last part of the heritage to go. The Irish are leary of hope look at where it got them in the past! But no one under 50 takes refuge in the Patriot Game any more, that truculent dirge over Ireland's glorious failures...
...returned to the U.S. He was then declared insane and committed to a mental hospital for 12 years, after which the indictment was dismissed and it was ultimately decided that he was sane after all. Pound has lived in Europe in self-imposed exile ever since. But the past was laid aside during Hamilton's commencement exercises as the poet, now 84, received well-wishers and autographed a copy of his Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVIL...
...settlement of Taos, tucked away in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico, is loosely linked to the rest of the world only by narrow, crumbling ribbons of highways. It seemed a God-sent El Dorado for the nation's newest wave of migrants. Over the past two years, driven from the cities by hoodlums and a yearning for the pastoral life, some 1,000 hippies have settled around Taos-buying small plots of land, hand-fashioning adobe casas, and settling down to light farming. Along with their home-grown marijuana and vegetables, however, they have been...
...seemed to be just another Emmy awards ceremony, more smoothly mounted than in the past, but still the usual routine: M.C.s introducing guest presenters who introduced the winners. But there also were some moments spiked with irony and bitterness...
...bearded and denim-wearing Peter Fonda at ease and then drew him out about the American educational system ("It's a mess-but my old lady won: our kids go to school") and the generation gap ("My father and I have gotten much closer in the past few years." At least "we talk to each other on the phone every...