Word: taping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell had to be brave to even attempt a poem so simple as this. There is no structured poetic theory like Stevens', between him and his subject, no fluffy metaphor to make the horror manageable, no "T. S. Eliotscotch-tape," as one of his memorialists says, to put the shattered lost world together again. And this is where Jarrell parts company with most of his contemporaries...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...
...being outadministered." And he ridicules ideas that Viet Cong guerrillas could be bought off with a massive infusion of material aid. "One can't fight a militant doctrine with better privies," he writes. Fall's perceptions of men at war permeate his last articles and a tape recording recovered from his body. "It smells bad," he commented moments before his foot triggered the mine. "Could...
Television on tape or film often suffers from loss of spontaneity, but it frequently makes up the loss with a quality of intimacy and awe. CBS last week ran off two such engaging programs...
...negotiated directly with the South Vietnamese government to arrange the children's transfers. Dr. Neddleman said that they are currently arranging a "procedural document to short cut the considerable red tape involved" with the Saigon Ministries of Health...