Word: buttings
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Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson (1982). This would be a rarity in any era, a literary memoir free of rancor and score settling. The author recalls her first husband, John Berryman, and his friends, among them Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz, men who left behind some...
Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia, 1980). Born in the U.S.A. was the record that made the Boss a legend, but the bleak majesty of this two-LP set shows the bedrock of his talent.
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Legend (Island, 1984). Marley died in 1981, but this collection of some of his best songs was no epitaph. It was a perpetual baptism of Jamaican soul.
Bob Dylan: Biograph (Columbia, 1985). A premature but timely career retrospective of rock's most formidable writing talent, Biograph was also a welcome reassertion of Dylan's primacy. Was great, is great, will be great.
In political terms, he came from nowhere: a well-bred landowner's son and former governor from the tropical hinterland who compared himself with Jimmy Carter. The similarities do not go far: like Carter, he ran against the federal government, tilting at its waste and mismanagement, but when it came...