Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funerals over the decade gathered at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis. At Rose's request, the requiem was a white Mass-celebrated in white vestments to emphasize the Resurrection. Ted Kennedy delivered a brief eulogy to his father, reading from The Fruitful Bough, a privately printed book of essays about the ambassador. Boston's craggy Richard Cardinal Gushing, who has married, baptized and buried the Kennedys for 24 years, delivered a twelve-minute "personal tribute to the character and genius of a longtime friend...
...LOOKING at The Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology. It's an enormous book 460 pages of sermons, poems, informal essays. T.S. Eliot has some delicate lyrics composed while he was an undergraduate here. Theodore Roosevelt has written a bellicose speech on "Harvard and Preparedness" (including some remarks about "the absurd and mischievous professional-pacifist or peace-at-any-price movements which have so thoroughly discredited this country during the past five years. These men are seeking to chinafy the country."): E.E. Cummings wrote rhymed poems as an undergraduate, and these are to be found here too. Photographs of Wallace Stevens...
...know if it is because institutions seem to be crumbling about us, or because what happened in the past appears embarrassing, but this book strikes me as very unreal. The Advocate simply isn't like that any more. These earnest poems, this heritage! To think that all these distant figures were great, that we too may become like them. What seems so impossible to us now is that anything could have happened to damage them. Their names, engraved in faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House...
...reading. He had lived here for several years while writing his thesis on Robert Lowell, and then had moved out to Berkeley. Now he looked like he was from California. That night he read some poems which had appeared in the San Francisco Oracle, talked a lot about a book written by an Indian, Black Elk, and then a drug poem called "STP." There was a party at the House afterwards. Someone had brought a record player and the music was really loud. People were dancing beneath the plaques on the walls; the medieval table had been pushed aside...
...popping kits for some time now, and I have been urged to send one to the Crimson boys. But I have declined. First of all, "Who will win the Harvard-Yale game" is one of the world's most often-asked questions, second only to "Who wrote the book of love?" So there is always a chance, even if Harvard has lost to Brown. I don't know how many of you remember last year's game, but a strong finish by the Crimson brought a 29-29 tie, evidence that Harvard isn't always as bad as it seems...