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NONETHELESS, her career as a woman in a profession cannot be avoided as a point of discussion. Approving of day care only if the parents are unself-conscious about it, she recalls the early years of marriage (she got married at 19) and of babies "being tossed around from one member of the family to another." Far from being harmful, however, this ensured "an even larger amount of affection." Not did any dreams of intellectual bohemia come true. "When I first started house-keeping I though I would never be 'bourgeois', but after a week of nonchalance I simply could...
...been negotiating with the city for a new contract in place of the expired one for eight months: "I think most ordinary people know that the few extra dollars they got were just being taken away by price increases." Striking Gunter David of the Newark Evening News had an unself-centered point of view: "We just happened to get caught in the middle of the situation, but if we hadn't been on strike I would have said fine to the freeze...
Sylvia Plath is already well known for her last poems, which are brilliant songs of self-destruction, the ne plus ultra of confessional verse. The Bell Jar is a marvelously unself-conscious confessional novel dashed off before such documents were in vogue. Now, however, it is as if the likes of Joan Didion have merely been sweeping the stage for Sylvia's ghostly comeback. Like the Lady Lazarus of her poem, she is a virtuoso of death. As she wrote: "You could say I have a call...
...Introduction to the Songs of Innocence," a child-spirit appears before the poet-piper, listens to his songs, and weeps to hear the gleeful and unself-consciously played music. In the "Songs of Innocence," the poet claims gleefully to create in order to recapture the spontaneity and ecstasy of childhood. The act of writing is secondary to the joyousness of the Singer's entire being and it is the spirit, not his own ego, that commands him to record his intuitive inspiration...
...Beatles are just so self-confident, they have such a sure touch. That was always the secret of the great Memphis Delta blues-men (and of folk artists in general, they could knock you dead by the mere aura of unself-conscious authority that they projected. I think that what is happening with the Beatles is that they are beginning to achieve, in a rock context, that exact amalgam of easy natural strength and sure-footed integrity born of a complete command over the medium. (Exciting to think that, before our eyes, the Beatles are doing it all over again...