Word: weep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry replied with a new work titled "Ego Confession." "I want to be known as the most brilliant man on earth," said Ginsberg, "who overthrew the CIA with silent thought ... who sang of blues that made rock stars weep and moved old black guitarists to laughter in Memphis ... who could call the Justice Department and threaten to blow the whistle ... who wasn't afraid of God or death after his 48th year...
...gifts. He tried to be a poet, though the results were usually doggerel and sometimes bawdy: "In war just as in loving,/ You've got to keep on shoving." He could combine callousness-slapping shell-shocked soldiers, for example -with great tenderness for his men. He would sometimes weep and kiss the foreheads of soldiers killed in battle. He was remarkably observant, sometimes with a grisly poetry: "Saw a lot of dead Germans yesterday frozen in funny attitudes. I did not have my color camera, which was a pity, as their faces were a pale claret color." Gradually...
...painter's astonishment when she arrived at his studio early in the morning wearing a red velvet dress; it was a cast-off sent by relatives in Cuba where women didn't stifle themselves. During an experiment with LSD, she blurts: "I want to explain to you why women weep. IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN." The ocean mimes this woman's fluidity, color and sensuality...
...Your article on political wives made me weep. I left Washington in '65 - physically and mentally torn. No one seemed to accept or understand the divorce. I'm still struggling to stabilize...
...sisters must weep, let them do it over the graves of the brave men who gave up life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to fight for what their country (right or wrong) decided had to be defended...