Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reading Tate's poems we are struck first by the formality of the versification, listening to them, we finally begin to feel the inner rhythm, the naturalness of it, in spite of, no because of, the great care with which it was planned...
...show. We were subjected to the "hot and cold water treatment" of having a roommate (usually a spy) and then enduring the anguish of solitary confinement (five months of it)--all this I knew to be the daily lot of the woman that I had decided to marry, in spite of war, in spite of barbed wire and hate, and in spite of the Secret Police who told me: "It is totally within our power whether you ever see Elizabeth Neumann again...
...spite of the daily barbing that I was flag-waving the American stars and stripes (den Sternenbanner hochtragen) when they didn't get their information, despite the threats to put me in a mental institution, despite their calling me a 'Schweinehund" (and Elizabeth even worse) I did not ever insult or use any improper language or raise my voice towards any member of the East German government, Secret Police or otherwise, as tape recordings would show if they dared produce them. Western press reports would one day quote East lawyer Vogel as saying that at the trial I had been...
...real that wrenches, the quick that's wry." Stubbornly out of touch with this or any other time, living in exile in a California trailer court, Floyd has got up to the age of 82 on a diet of hard-fried eggs and potatoes, not to mention sheer spite against the couple (still in their 60s and owning three cats) who are waiting for him to die so they can move into his trailer. Floyd's working life consists of standing at the corner by the school with STOP stenciled on the back of his jacket...
...many older people are strangely attracted to children's literature in spite of (or for) the fact that it does not often perform cerebral and verbal scrobatics. The Annotated Alice (in Wonderland) is an admittedly fascinating example of the adult urge to examine and the understand fantasy. But does such squinting really bring anyone closer to seeing what Lewis Carroll was up to? Or did he expect us simply to accept the imaginative irrationality of his books...