Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great man is one sentence," declared Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the American Gas Association convention in Boston. "History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." Dwight Eisenhower's sentence: "He led the victorious armies of the alliance in the greatest war in history." John F. Kennedy's: "He challenged the might of the Soviet Union in the Western Hemisphere and won-short of war." Richard Nixon, she thinks, "may be in the process of writing his one sentence now. It will...
...whole generation of poets breathily crouching over their typewriters, using the space bar heavily to stop or start a line as a catch in the lungs might dictate. On the page, poetry so produced had an iconography of spattered phrases, nouns that hovered inches above a possible verb, floating prepositions, typographical whizbangs of all sorts that suggested E.E. Cummings gone mad. But it was ideal for the lecture circuit...
...their friends thought it a great joke to say, 'What a father you've got!' " On top of that, he added, "Alexander Portnoy and I are both Jewish." Worst of all, Portnoy's business partner is named Victor Branli, and branler is the French slang verb for masturbate. Branli, too, was unsettled. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather the confusion was with a Bluebeard than with a Portnoy...
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...poem, Fuller has transformed himself into a transitive verb, skimming furiously from the 17th century to that place where all architects hold large estates: tomorrow...