Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell (read by Tom O’Bedlam)

Lowell was a Conscientious Objector (C.O.) who like Jehovah’s Witnesses (J.W.) 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