Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first days of his visit here, giving readings at Brandeis and Wellesley, drifting through Harvard Square, and talking far into the night about his life and of the age. Last Friday night he gave the first of two readings scheduled at Harvard, and brought to the small audience in Burr B a final sense of what poetry had been before the War: defiant, vociferous, marked by a refusal to acknowledge even the voice's limitations. Andrew Wylie read from his own translations, and Ungaretti followed each poem in Italian. Reciting "Tu Ti Spezzasti" ("You Shattered"), a lament on the death...
...stores now are full of the stuff. The U.S. Congress has ruled that an antique is something that dates back to at least 100 years. But with copiers and satellites, computers and jets compressing into minutes tasks that once took days, venerability has also accelerated. Manhattan Antique Dealer Sandy Burr holds an elegant wooden object, an art student's model of a woman's hand. "It has some age to it," he says. "Maybe 15 or 20 years...
...month ago, few Harvard undergraduates had ever seen Calkins. He was just one of the Corporation's Fellows then, and like the other Fellows--Burr, Nickerson, Marbury, and Kane--he was virtually invisible to most students here...
...before the occupation of University Hall, three hundred alumni and their wives filed into Burr B for a Return-to-Harvard speech by George Wlad on student disillusionment and its relation to world politics. In the Leverett dining room where the alumni ate with Master Gill, SDS posters foretold of a meeting that night...
...open discussion in Burr B flowed back and forth Several alumni walked out stammering under their breath that the place hadn't changed a bit. Same old flaming liberals. Outside some older graduates paused to talk about student protest in general although none felt any immediate alarm over the possibility that it might happen at Harvard...