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...finest and riskiest poems is "The Fiend," which Dickey talked about in Richard Tillinghast's English C section. This poem depicts a voyeur in action...
...ability-and willingness-to profit by a rival's example. Thus, after watching Pan American build its subsidiary chain of Inter-Continental Hotels into a highly profitable operation, Trans World Airlines decided to take similar care of its own globetrotting passengers. Last week TWA President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. and Conrad N. Hilton, chairman and president of Hilton International Co., announced that they had reached a preliminary merger agreement...
Former Harvard tutor Richard Tillinghast authored the last of the great poems, "Ascension Day: Waking on the Train." The narrative viewpoint is clouded, seemingly drifting between dream and drowsy waking. In the transitions, a county-fair balloon ascension becomes associated with an erection the narrator wakes up with: "The man in the train compartment is to have an erection/ which in turn will cause the giant balloon to ascend." Meanwhile, soldiers on the train, who "always sleep erect/ as though in training for an awkward death," have become the subjects of negative antimilitary associations, and gun down the balloon erection...
...Goldfarb were a bad poet he would still be monumental; he is a good one, and magnificent. Tillinghast calls attention to a generously exploited strain of exhibitionism in the preceding verse...
Such attention to three superb writers involves slighting others equally good, and at least officially more mature. Richard Tillinghast, irrespressibly bright and in full control of his medium, makes capital out of conversation; James Tate, the Yale Younger Poet of the year, is a sharp, radiant poet with access to striking language; Stephen Sandy's skill and precision need no accolades. Howard Nemerov, Elizabeth Jackson Barker, Thomas Redshaw and the magazine's co-editor Timothy Mayo contribute to a very solid straight flush of poets, with no jokers...