Word: bard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began to attract attention and praise, a succession of academic posts beckoned; between 1989 and 1994, he was both the professor of poetry at Oxford and the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. And he attracted hordes of acolytes and admirers along the way, a bearish, affable bard equally at ease in faculty room...
Immigration. We are not us anymore. Americans of earlier arrival looked back nostalgically, bitterly, to a virtuous Edenic America, now lost and overrun. Whitman, the bard of democracy, harbored some of the Know-Nothings' nativist bigotries. He referred to a "coarse, unshaven, filthy Irish rabble...
...Bard's A Comedy of Errors, one set of twins serves another set of twins on the island of Ephesus. At the beginning of the play, however, the city's people do not realize that there are two identical master-servant pairs, for one long-lost pair has just arrived on the island...
...serpentine line of the young, the old, the ponytailed and the clean cut wound back and forth through crowded aisles, patiently awaiting the ink of the beloved bard...
...Every year after I run it I say `I will never do it again,'" said Quincy House resident tutor Bard J. Geesaman. "It is not bad for the first 18 miles, but it is so painful for the last eight miles. Your body just has no energy left...