Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweet Piety. The three Gorkys form a triptych of commentary upon each other observed at different ages. Without being didactic, Tesich manages to touch on several things worth thinking about. He says that survival is mandatory and compromise may be its price. Only the living can change a society, never the dead. He indicates, very subtly, that perhaps Russian society can never be changed, even by revolution, since tyranny is the only tradition the Russians know, have, and trust for getting things done...
Against this unholy aspect of Russia, Tesich pits the sweet piety of spirit that still resides in its people. This is brought forth in the music and the dances which suggest a community of soul−something that we can recognize in the life patterns of U.S. blacks...
...revenge is sweet like honey which drips from the comb," then the defeated Crimson has developed quite a sweet tooth. Wilson has had his team of five faculty and 13 graduate students practicing every week since September...
...years in the Columbia English department tried to recapture the elusive qualities of a great teacher. Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, once awed by "the witchlike precision" of Trilling's mind, said that he was "an intellectual father." Added Beat Generation Poet Allen Ginsberg: "He had a sweet heart, a sad, solemn sweetness." Columbia Professor Emeritus Jacques Barzun, who collaborated with Trilling for 36 years in a course on cultural history, admired the way "his thoughts progressed in a rational manner from beginning to end." A student who took that Barzun-Trilling course remembers most vividly the moment when some...
...strangest thing about the epistolory method is the way Joyce shifts from the guilt-ridden accuser of betrayal to the brute animal, form addressing his letters, "My darling little convent girl," to "My sweet naughty little fuckbird." The letters are not all too significant, although Joyce does make at least one rather bold assertion: That he could sniff out his wife's gases in a roomful of women emitting similarly odiferous noises...