Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poetry at 21, reshaped the poetic idiom of his time, and left his imprint on the generations to come. For Rimbaud perfected, if he did not invent, the prose poem, into which he poured the visions of fiis subconscious: "I have stretched ropes from belfry to belfry, garlands from window to window; gold chains from star to star, and I'm dancing." Today, the influence of Rimbaud is visible in the works of such diverse poets as Nobel Prizewinner St. John Perse and Beatnik Allen Ginsberg, in the prose effusions of novelists as different as Henry Miller and William...
...Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing his typewriter out a window becomes more important than his poetry. All in all, the book brings to mind a remark of Joseph Conrad's: "In plucking the fruit of memory, one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom...
Students too seemed sure that it was "an inside job." The flasks were being stored on a fairly obscure roof facing the back of Mallinckrodt, reached only by crawling through a window from the chemistry lab. "Someone had to know they were there," hinted a girl student dramatically...
...Tinsel-like strips, similar to the shredded British-designed material called window used with great success by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers in World War II to impair the accuracy of Hitler's radar-controlled antiaircraft guns...
...first story in Assembly, a 63-pager called "Mrs. Stratton of Oak Knoll," typifies this shortcoming, and it is enough to makes less patient readers heave the volume through a window. For 63 pages, nobody says anything or does anything of the slightest interest to anybody, and all these precious people stumble in and out of each other's houses to no purpose. Finally, without ever getting off the ground, "Mrs. Stratton of Oak Knoll" ends. That's one thing in its favor...