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...very things in his work that have set the conventional-minded to spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience of girls rose as he mounted the platform and chanted in unison one of his poems...
...infancy 20 colleges, Amherst, Barnard, Bennington, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Colgate, Haverford, Holy Cross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Simmons, Smith, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton, and Williams, joined with Harvard in support of the program...
...Composers' Conference and Chamber Music Center at Bennington, Vt., where about 50 composers and instrumentalists gather for two weeks in August to play for each other and the public...
During summer months, these green dicta issue from an ivory bower, a rustic, century-old house near Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...
Arriving at Fort Edward in need of provisions, Burgoyne sent a Hessian force to seize American stores at Bennington. New Hampshire and Vermont militiamen intercepted the raiders, and drove them off in disorder with a loss of 207 men. The Americans, who took 600 prisoners, lost only 30 killed and 40 wounded...