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Word: alizarin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Shaw gives us Caliban, "gaping with gross howls," Maeve Kinkead '68 sees "an ocean gone alizarin," and in Gavin Borden's poem, "An impartial breeze will window/cherished ashes from green, blown leaves." They manage to sound like poets, but the sound effects and tricky adjectives are stuck in for their own sakes, and not for the poem...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Advocate | 4/20/1966 | See Source »

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