Word: sextons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said about the verses turned out by scores of young poets who write in the confessional mode. Suffering, after all, is universal, and confessing it carries a certain social prestige. Precisely because it is so tempting, few poetical practitioners rise above the general ruck. One who does is Anne Sexton, 42, who has carried readers with her in and out of mental hospitals, through marriage to a Boston executive, two children and sundry passions. In her most recent volume, she writes in "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife...
Worn Out. In a village with two hotels (one owned by Bouvet), an inn and a café, the marrying mayor has almost a monopoly on the commercial fruits of marriage. If a religious ceremony is requested, Church Sexton Bouvet makes the arrangements. His wife is a ready witness, though she is usually busy preparing the wedding dinner (or breakfast) at the Bouvets' hotel, where the mayor lodges the honeymooners...
...immediate trigger for Premier Süeyman Demirel's political demise was the case of the four kidnaped U.S. airmen. Sergeant Jimmie J. Sexton and Airmen First Class James M. Gholson, Larry Heavner and Richard Caraszi were abducted two weeks ago by young revolutionaries who demanded $400,000 to spare their lives. The Ankara government responded with a heavyhanded and unproductive search through the Middle East Technical University, in which a student and a soldier were killed...
Without Pumps. The town's half dozen lawyers, most of them named Sexton and vaguely related to one another, refuse to take non-oil cases any more. Even oilmen queue up to see them. "When someone comes in and wants title or lease work done," says one lawyer, "I tell 'em to put $300 on the table before we even start talking...
Quietly Awful. But reader, beware. Behind this quiet, well-taught Garden Party-girl behavior, Atwood conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail. She is one of the new sisterhood-like Novelist Joan Didion and Poet Anne Sexton-who seem to have sprung full-grown from condemned-property dollhouses. Hyper-observant, dangerously polite waifs, they look at the world with large, bruised eyes and gently whisper of loneliness, emptiness and casual cruelty...