Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to understand that, when the unflagging, disarming American charm met Dylan's professional charm, it caused a general melting fudge of a sticky, syrupy, irresistible fluid, impossible for such as us: raw from the harsh Welsh backward blacknesses." To his "wide-open-beaked" poetry readings all over the U.S.. Dylan gave "the concentrated artillery of his flesh and blood, and, above all, his breath. I used to come in late and hear, through the mikes, the breath-straining panting . . . booming blue thunder into the teenagers' delighted bras and briefs. And I thought, Jesus, why doesn...
...some people's minds, as to my super bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that we did not kill each other outright; we certainly got dangerously near to it." But it was only with Dylan dead and buried in his Welsh village of Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing dip in the hills") that Caitlin was possessed by the enormity of her loss, and wanted "to ferret down to that long locked cold box, and burst it apart . . . to mangle him with my strong bones, mingle, mutilate...
...mother of three children (one of them in his teens) Caitlin was expected by the prim and proper Welsh ladies to wear her widow's weeds decorously. Instead, "I stole their sons and husbands." By her testimony, she used sex to drown her grief, but it did not work: there was only "an increase in my inescapable dedication to Dylan." With the Welsh ladies' faces set against her like so many druid stones, Caitlin took her five-year-old son Colm and fled into exile, to the Italian island of Elba...
...Britain began to fight over his identity. The Herald (of Caernarvon, Wales) proudly claimed him as a Welshman. The Herald (of New York City) declared that he was born in Missouri. Stanley had no wish to confess his Welsh illegitimacy, but even less to tell the world that he was a Confederate soldier turned Unionist and a deserter from the Navy to boot. He made Britain his base, left others to fight out the problem...
...slower first heat, John Welsh of Springfield took first place with a 21:17.5, followed by Connecticut's Doug Fingels in 21:26.5, and Murray Kohlman (21:44.3) of M.I.T., and Kenneth Lee (21:46.4) of Cortland Teachers...