They set up the Poetry Archive, a systematic attempt to record significant poets for posterity, and to make those recordings accessible to the public.
Now I'd never attempt to record three songs in two days.
And any attempt to record them except in the human memory proves futile.
But there is no didactic or historical purpose, just an attempt to record the world in an ever-unfolding present.
This series is head and shoulders above any other attempt to record dramatically a whole human life.
There are no shots of bleak interiors or institutional life, no polemics, no attempt to record a visual expose.
The rage and self-hatred born out of bad decisions and bad luck have long since burned into a clear-hearted attempt to record the cruelties Lindhout endured.
There has also been a widespread attempt to record oral memories of Partition before the dwindling generation that experienced it takes its memories to the grave.
It is Himes's attempt to record his thorny relationship to an oppression other than his own that accounts for some of his most troubled and troubling writing.
Though Montaigne was born in 1533, Bakewell stresses his modernity; he was the first to attempt to record a "sequence of sensations as they felt from the inside".
In 2014 the South Dakota Historical Society Press issued Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, which comprised Wilder's initial (1929 30) attempt to record her life.
