Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Continuing his shutter diplomacy, Kennerly flew to Jerusalem, where he found Begin an equally receptive subject. He accompanied the Premier on visits to what the Israelis call the New Territories, sat in on his business conferences, and watched him relax with his family. Says Kennerly: "Both Begin and Sadat are consummate politicians. I think they would probably get along well-perhaps not politically, but personally...
Plimpton's subject matter may have dictated the change. Boxing has traditionally attracted a more unsavory following than the major team sports. Generally, its heroes have been hard-luck kids who apprenticed to the trade with bareknuckle street bouts, who became good fighters because they were hungry fighters. Historically, though, boxing fans have always included a contingent of aristocrats and writers. The boxing world will never have the wholesomeness of Monday night football, and Plimpton accepts this. He devotes more than a chapter to the story of a brazen stick-up at a post-fight party in Atlanta, at which...
...death is always a subject with grim overtones, the approach to it in Shadow Box is typically Plimpton--light-hearted, open-minded, and fanciful. Worthy and characteristic "last moments" are contributed by the likes of Terry Southern, Charles Addams, Allen Ginsberg, and Jules Feiffer. Plimpton's own fantasy takes place in Yankee Stadium. As an outfielder he runs into one of the monuments that used to stand in deep center field...
Some of the hidden drama in Plimpton's life no doubt revolves around how he was able to take a gentleman's preoccupation with the proper use of leisure and turn it into journalistic subject matter capable of engaging his abilities to the fullest. Shadow Box is another Plimpton tour de force, and a vindication of one American boy's determination to never grow...
These collected poems are consistent with Beckett's other works. The subject matter, though a bit more personal, is just as poignant and profound, and there is not much change reflected in "Thither" written in 1976 as compared to "Gnome" written in 1934. As Beckett said in Waiting for Godot, "Nothing ever changes, it's always the same...