Word: barne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gala summer festival of the Poetry Society of Vermont, a read-aloud of poems written by members." The 43 poets and their guests paid $2.50 each for a cold roast-beef luncheon in a clover field on a 225-acre farm and then filed into the red barn for the readings. Most of the poets were middle-aged or more, and on the whole they celebrated a touching and suspended pastoral world savoring of a benign Frost. Some of the more modern verses, though, dealt with hippies and urban loneliness. Winner of the first prize ($15) was "Summer Sanctuary...
...copying out passages from their favorite books and appending their reactions. Auden has been collecting his for much of his life. Quite correctly, he calls it a map of his secret planet. It is arranged in alphabetical order by a fascinating variety of subjects: "World, End of the"; "Owls, Barn"; "Prose, Purple"; "Prose, Annihilating." Under each heading come one or more literary quotations interspersed with Auden's comments. To anyone who has read Auden, the book reveals the sources of his poetry as fully and incisively as any autobiography could. It also provides the casual reader with some...
...professorial husband Roger (Fritz Weaver) is a pedant who sprinkles even casual conversation with chalk dust. On Roger's sabbatical, the Merediths flee New York for a Tennessee farm. But while Roger is examining constitutional law, Libby sets to work fracturing some commandments. For lurking in the barn is the local satyr, Will Cade (Anthony Quinn). "I'm a grandmother," protests Libby at first. "There's a lot of woman left in ya," grunts Will...
...group will also demand the immediate creation of an Agro-American Studies Department and the termination of all contracts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In addition, the farmers will call for the conversion of Memorial Hall into a cow barn...
...dark they swerved off the freeway to the store for bungalow paint. Merilee plowed the aisles, selecting her barn reds to match her tangerines, and left Sam and the keeds to pay. When they caught up. Merilee and Stefan were across the street in front of the garden store, standing stranded in an island of bebop potted trees and exotic flora they had selected, waiting for Sam to arrive with the cash...