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Martin Luther accused him of playing God. An English observer saw him as an idler who wanted "only an apple and a fair wench to dally with." To one subject he was "a tyrant more cruel than Nero." When his wife Anne Boleyn was about to be beheaded by his executioner, she maintained: "A gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never." Even as they felt the impact of his boisterous personality, the sting of his vindictiveness, or the thrust of his appetite for pleasure and power, the contemporaries of King Henry VIII could never quite understand...
...ponders some escape. After all, Sherwood Anderson was 36 when he quit running an Ohio paint factory and started writing fiction. Gauguin was a sometime Parisian broker of 43 when he ran off to paint and wench in Tahiti. Should he dye his hair, have an affair, get divorced, quit his job? But how can he sacrifice that pension, that company-paid insurance? What girl wants him? What new employer...
...course, everybody has his bate noire, his black pet, in the series. Mine is that airline ad: the snack served by an obsequious wench to a young couple, she eyeing ecstatically the cucumber canape, he admiring wistfully the hostess. And, of course, Death in Venice. You see the range...
While its popularity may silence the gloomy critics of the national scene who proclaim that America never reads, the book's success threatens to throw a wench into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...
...baseball-crazy/ gasoline-hazy/ America!" A passionate patriot, he is also a ferocious critic of Communism. In a horrendous poem printed in 1963, he likens the relation between the Russians and their rulers to that between Peter the Great and one of his mistresses. Having cut off the poor wench's head, the czar snatched it up again by the hair and then, according to eyewitnesses, kissed the bloody carrion passionately on the lips. Unlike Evtushenko, however, Voznesensky is not primarily a political poet. He is concerned with politics because he is concerned with the suffering it causes...