Word: virtuous
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...Virtuous? The old brume seldom clears...
...with Berryman's sonnets there is a difference. Lise, excellent lady, is neither untouched nor particularly virtuous. Crimes of adultery and deception have been committed. Nor is the poet attempting either a temporary seduction (already accomplished) or (at first) a permanent possession of the Lady. The affair is intense; its emotions range from guilt and despair to real joy and momentary hope. Berryman attempts to involve the excellent lady in all of that intensity and emotional chaos. The guilt and self-effacement, he insists, should be shared as well as the joy; after an octet's abstract discussion of adultery...
...jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word of her own: "Virtuous...
Indeed, it could be argued that in their independence of material possessions and their emphasis on peacefulness and honesty, hippies lead considerably more virtuous lives than the great majority of their fellow citizens. This, despite their blatant disregard for most of society's accepted mores and many of its laws-most notably those prohibiting the use of drugs-helps explain why so many people in authority, from cops to judges to ministers, tend to treat them gently and with a measure of respect. In the end it may be that the hippies have not so much dropped...
...tour this season means that he will miss 40% of his classes, he bones up on lectures taped for him by an admiring Radcliffe coed. "I take my books on tour," he says, "but it's like a child sucking his thumb. They comfort me, make me feel virtuous. But I'm always disastrously behind." Nevertheless, he caught up well enough during the first term to make the dean's list...