I do this in recognition of the fact that mere mention of Israel can send its critics into paroxysms of rhetorical excess seldom heard outside ESPN.
In the poem above, with its ampersands and strong enjambments, its knowing alliterative excesses, I hear Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit priest who jury-rigged his verse to express personal turmoil, and Hart Crane, whose gentleness was expressed in an American idiom full of thunderclap, and Allen Ginsberg, who loved and learned from them both.
Still saying he heard "an excess of metal," he sent No. K0862 to Mr. Dillon for inspection.
In contrast, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's 8-hr workplace regulation of 90 dBA may result in a 25% excess risk of hearing impairment among workers exposed over a working lifetime [ National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 1998].
The Lancet has taken the bold step of speaking out against its owner's excesses, but little has been heard from the editors, authors, and readers of the other 2000 journals published by Reed Elsevier.
A few of the Bravo Company soldiers later heard about the excesses committed by Charlie Company and about impending investigations there, but somehow there was little concern about the atrocities they themselves had committed.
One of the myths of Edwardian Britain is that the people had never heard of Edward's excesses.
"We have heard much about drinking to excess, sexual relationships between colleagues, intention to go to places that were out of bounds in the local town," he said.
In the past few weeks, we've heard story after story of corporate excess, often in admonishments toward corporate executives from various congressional committees.
We've heard horror stories about rates in excess of $1/min (USD) and phone bills of $1,000/mo (USD) and more, especially from soldiers stationed overseas.
