"Memories of West Street and Lepke" by Robert Lowell (poetry reading)

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Lowell was a Conscientious Objector (CO) who like Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) were opposed to WWII on ethical grounds. For this reason he was "given a year" in West Street Jail in 1943. The reason why he quotes "hardly passionate Marlborough Street" is that William James, the philosopher, gives it as an example of understatement "Marlborough is hardly a passionate street" A "hospital tuck" is a neat way of making a bed. Abramowitz may have been "a jaundice yellow" because he was a vegetarian ...