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...world explorer, a man equally at home in the forests of New Zealand and the trackless Arctic tundra, tried to find his way in a rented car from Logan International Airport to the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Forced into a high-speed exit decision at a rotary, he soon realized that he had made a wrong choice. He was immediately and irretrievably lost because there were nothing but cross-street signs, so he could not find where he was on the map clenched in his fist. Cursing the lack of street signs, he asked a cabbie for directions...
...ingredients for an afternoon of poor performances were in place, but Harvard ignored them and instead produced a magnificent statement on its ability to adapt to arctic conditions...
Brodsky, 45, is something of an international celebrity and hero. He was already an important young poet in the Soviet Union when he was charged with "social parasitism." Translation: his poetry and bohemian ways did not advance the causes of Communism. Hauling manure on a farm near the Arctic Circle did, according to the state, and in 1964 he was sent there to earn his keep. Neither the isolation nor the climate stopped him from writing. As he testified in his poem "A Part of Speech," "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers...
...ARCTIC DREAMS...
...joining a hardy but elite horde at arctic Bright Center for the Crimson's home contests. And, if you choose, you could become one of an even smaller--and more elite--group that joins the Cantabs on the road...