Word: stale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lost Son), or perhaps a series of poems less restrictive in form than the sonnet (Snod-grass Heart's Needle). But Berryman chose a sequence of sonnets, a selection which is initially mysterious: a sonnetter inherits elaborate conventions of expression so often used as to seem, almost invariably, stale and uncommunicative to a modern audience. Berryman enthusiastically accepts these restrictions and puts them to work for himself. A single sonnet is particularly suited to the elaborate presentation of one feeling. In a sequence of sonnets a larger pattern of responses to a single intense emotion--invariably love--emerges...
...same collection, he could be familial and tender: Gone now the baby's nurse/a lioness who ruled the roost/ and made the Mother cry. Yet even in his more resigned moments, he really seemed to distrust tranquillity: Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small...
...former grandeur." For one thing, he wrote, "the shrimp were tough, and so was the lobster in the bouillabaisse. The maitre d'hótel walked around with a red pencil sticking out of his breast pocket." And, invraisemblablement: "On a recent evening, the rolls were stale...
...Chicago Cubs lineup includes three genuine major leaguers to two for the New York Mets. On the mound, Leo Durocher is going with an exciting crop of unproven youngsters like Ferguson Jenkins, Ken Holtzman, Dick Nye, and Ray Culp. Wes Westrum is counting on a stale harvest of sure-fire hard-luck losers: Jack Fisher, Don Cardwell, Bob Shaw, and Ralph Terry...
...creeps, from stale crisis to predictable denouement. Will David marry Sara Kent, the white artist who loves him despite race and rancor? Will he accept the tempting offer of a State Department post in seething black Africa? Or will he meet a martyr's fate under the gunsight of nasty OP Clete...