Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliberately, that its tang/Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb." And an active, transitive verb at that. Heaney always places himself in each animated poem: in a record of his four sequestered years in the country, he wanders from the water's edge to open shed, from a stone pier to a deeply tilled...
Wohl's stated aim is to "shed light on the politics of early twentieth century intellectuals." In doing so, he skips such intellectuals as T.S. Eliot, Erich Remarque and American expatriates like Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway, who had both a political and intellectual vision. The negligence of Eliot is particularly blatant, especially in contrast to Wohl's paeons to the inferior poetry of Brooke and Sassoon...
Explaining that he wanted to "shed light on an aspect of modern Greek history," Papathanassiou reveals how the Justice Ministry itself - evidently under pressure from junta sympathizers - regularly ordered leniency and creature comforts for the special prisoners. He recalls that he had to be constantly on the alert for plots to help them escape. He indicates that some of the prisoners even managed to engage in active politicking from behind bars during the 1977 elections; they communicated through their lawyers to boost the fortunes of the right-wing National Front Party against the ruling New Democracy Party of Premier Constantine...