Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only poem that succeeded in arousing direct antagonism from its beginning was Gerard Malanga's sadistically long "Poem In Search Of A Title." That is not all it seems to be in search of-it is in desperate need of a subject and a conclusion a good deal sooner than the seven pages it took to reach it. Perhaps if these had been found, such lines as "(terry says/'Schjeldahl is better than Berkson. Bly is better than Olson) I don't know that!" could have been avoided. The poem is prefaced by a note from the Poetry Society...
Ellenburg, 50, had no sooner accepted the job than it was revealed that he allegedly had been on the Mafia payroll until 1963. Last week, after only ten days in office, the new police chief resigned. "I categorically deny the accusations," he said. In accepting the resignation, Stokes said: "To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Ellenburg is the victim of unproven accusations...
...always be counted on to enliven any project with vigor, subtlety and surprise. Or almost any project. Scott has muffed it occasionally. "Hell, I've compromised all my life. Ever see Not With My Wife, You Don't!* But something good always seems to come along sooner or later...
...Orleans, the state school board convention no sooner had voted "support of public education to the end" than Governor John McKeithen told the delegates: "I will not allow my children to be bused." McKeithen, who has ambitions to run for the Senate, had brought along a more moderate speech, but realized that there was more political capital in the defiant version. He was right. The speech was televised, and immediately afterward his office received 1,500 calls and telegrams endorsing his stand. In decrying busing, McKeithen and the other Governors are largely attacking a straw man. They talk...
Wigmakers have long argued that two heads are better than one, but women took some convincing. Human-hair wigs looked like a million, but cost in the hundreds and got dirty, limp and frazzled like the real thing. No sooner was a girl washed, cut and set for the week than it was time to book another appointment-for her wig. Cheaper, synthetic versions did not require such constant upkeep, but then, neither does straw or barbed wire-which they closely resembled. Finally came a new blend of modacrylic fibers-that looked like hair, felt like hair, but could...