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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, upon inspecting Segal's Roman Laughter, a study of the Roman Plautus, one finds in the very first paragraph of the Introduction, a brief put-down of all the "serious" scholars who find Plautus insignificant...
...Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students...
...methods were devious, ruthless f and thoroughly effective. Educated in § Roman Catholic missions and at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Nkrumah settled in London in the 1940s, em- braced Communism and developed skills as an orator, agitator and politician. By 1947 he was ready to apply his experience to Africa's Gold Coast, then a British colony. There he formed his own Convention People's Party to press for independence, and even before winning that goal was virtually deified by the people. Jailed by the British for sedition, he controlled his party by messages smuggled...
...accompanies Berryman's despair. It is a faith that invokes God as a protector but does not explore the Divine nature. It revolves less around God than around the poet's personal need for Him. The first section of Delusions, Etc. is composed of eight poems patterned on the Roman Catholic liturgical offices of the day, from Lauds to Compline. Other poems in the collection include a number of prayers ("Somber Prayer," "Overseas Prayer," "Usual Prayer," and "The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man") and a thanksgiving. There is also a poem in honor of the Virgin. Clearly the Church...
Increasingly, Berryman's work has shown a desperate man. In Delusions he reached the terminal realization that for him nothing was going to work -not love or fame, children or friends, not God himself. The best poems are religious. Brought up in the Roman Catholic Church, Berryman left it early, only to return in his last years, partly because his third wife, Kate, was Catholic. Instead of consolation he found God a heavy burden. Contemplation became an obsessive examination of conscience...