Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDUCATION this week runs the second installment of "Kudos" (from the Greek noun for glory; it's singular, not plural), an annual feature in TIME since 1925. Two staff members also received degrees: Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, an L.H.D. from New York's Wagner College, and the publisher of TIME, an LL.D. from Vermont's St. Michael's College, with the citation: "Behold the whole huge world wrapped each week in red-bordered paper...
...himself, to perpetrate in language "the gestures of a life that is nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on the tragic predicament of the self in time. Even on brief vacations from eschatology in lyric gardens where
...GIRL-GETTERS. Bird hunters fill their quota at a sleazy English seaside resort, where one young beachnik (Oliver Reed) shows a singular flair for wasting his youth...
...summer of 1964, the abolition of the poll tax for federal elections merged with another singular event, the Republican nomination of Barry Goldwaver for President. It proved to be an explosive mixture in Virginia...
Richard Tillinghast is utterly fluent, "Not Being There" is not one of his best, but his expert use of the first person singular and infallible control over the progression of a poem enable him to be both professional and insurrectionary. And Robert Shaw offers a long, successful suite of voices from a madhouse, something like Spoon River Anthology. Shaw handles forms extermely well; his quatrains make him the most entertaining poet in the issue...