Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Centuries after the poet composed his lyric tribute to the jail-breaking qualities of young love, his words ring with a far more literal truth. "There is really no secure prison" in all of Britain, concluded a government committee headed by former First Lord of the Admiralty Earl Mountbatten. And Britain's prison ers seem determined to prove Mountbatten right. In the two weeks since the report was published, convicts have been crashing out at an embarrassing clip. At least 29 have taken what the British press ironically calls "Christmas leave...
...Poet & Boxer. The most radical change is in the clubroom facilities. At the old Met, members had an elegant and spacious pad that was only a few bars' stroll from the bar and had a private entrance tended by a liveried doorman. The new room, decorated in quiet browns and blacks, seats 80 fewer members than the old, and the screens that separated women guests from the stag section have been removed...
...said a 17th century English poet proclaimed, "He who perpetrates a pun would pick a pocket...
BEAZLE: It was nothing, really. We medical men have been confounding patients for years. As far back as 1699, the physician and poet Samuel Garth wrote: "The patient's ears remorseless he assails/Murders with jargon where his medicine fails." Still, physical medicine is nothing compared with psychiatry. There's where we Jargonists truly have our day. Suppose a man loses his wife and is unable to love anyone because he is sad. What do I tell...
...were a poet," said Weidman in response to Simon's conception of the good critic, "he wouldn't be a critic--he'd write a poem...