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Berryman uses English with great imagination and flair. There are supposed to be two schools of American poetry: one that is effluent like Whitman and Ginsberg, and one that is precise and economical, like Frost or Lowell. Berryman is a member of both groups, being both extravagant and craftsman-like. One has the feeling that each poem was once much larger, and that he has somehow squeezed it all up. His words expand to take in more and more, and then collapse together, so that when one reads them, they explode in the mind, like the little pills that become...
...SONGS deal with an astonishing number of subjects. He talks about travel, old age, slavery, politics, poetry readings, Harvard, fame, broken arms, Charles Whitman, Christmas, alcohol, and adultery. Henry's world "is a solemn place, with room for tennis." (175) His major preoccupations...
...something: Charles Whitman or Fate...
...deceased inductees are headed by All-American football players Edward Casey '10 and Charles Hubbard '24; Malcolm Whitman '99, standout on the first Davis Cup team and three-time national tennis champ; Edward Gourdin '21, former world record holder in the broad jump; Palmer Dixon '25, two-time national squash champ and Varsity Club President from 1963-1966; Robert Emmons '21, baseball and hockey star; tennis champs Bob Wrenn '95 and Richard Williams '16, runner John Watters '26; hockey goalie Jabish Holmes '21; and Charles Clark '20, another star of the 1920 Rose Bowlers...
Targets does make one sorry improvement on life, however. Bobby kills far more bystanders than Whitman did. The endlessly repetitive fusillades suggest that Writer-Director Peter Bogdanovich, in his first film, was really intent on creating the most prolific murderer in Hollywood's long history of violence. Unfortunately, it is a record made to be broken...