Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compulsively inward! In the tradition that extends from Eliot to Lowell and those between, most poets write of themselves, in a style which Bly calls the reporting of "news of the human mind." Involved, ego-centered, almost embarrassingly self-aware, many contemporary poets seem to live to reveal, to confess. Again the style is very, very good . But Plath writing about an intensely personal insanity...
...Time parody, recorded its Surprising Sheep album, and ran at least one candidate for the mayoralty of New York, these latter-day Barnums could also have published a 160-page paperback. First editions do claim to have been authored by "Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney," who enthusiastically confess in a chatty little Forward how they overcame being 'handicapped by near-fatal hangovers and the loss of all our bodily hair (but that's another story).' Another story, indeed! For between this brace of leering parentheses, the whole hoax is revealed. Obviously, the Beard-Kenney persona is just...
...these are only pieces of Mr. Hyland's exercise in personal catharisis and public outrage. I confess that when I first read it. I didn't know whether it was meant to be taken seriously. Was it some kind of hoax? If I wanted to look through the literature and find an example of mindless, gastric-juice romanticism. I couldn't have found a better example. If I quoted it to my class, the students would think I'd made it up. It's the kind of piece-along with the accompanying report on the CFIA-that one is ordinarily...
...analogy I would use is Yom Kippur," he said. "There are people in the community whose conscience moves them not to take part in the University on a particular day. The Faculty ought to respect the conscientious beliefs of those who want to observe that day. I must confess being a little uneasy about the form of the Moratorium because it involves a suspension of the educational process...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy-or even the integrity-of the "classic" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System." I almost suspect this "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us-The Bad Guys-than of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...