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...hard drinker, and Khrushchev was known for making hasty decisions under the influence of alcohol. Brezhnev and his entourage loved nothing better than raising glasses and toasting "Na zdorovye ((to your health))." As vodka once fueled communist rule, so it has hastened its downfall. The American poet John Ciardi, who died in 1986, wrote prophetically about vodka...
...Dunster House, the grill opened last week, but co-manager Laurie A. Ciardi '90 says their organization is not yet complete. "We haven't been able to run at normal schedules," she says. "We're in the process of recruiting workers." Until grill workers can be found, the managers have been manning the grill themselves. But Ciardi adds, that there are quite a few people who want to work...
...these matters will be settled by the heedless masses of people who rarely look at dictionaries, much less write them; that is the way of linguistic evolution. So is there any point in resisting changes that may be inevitable? Yes, indeed, as the late poet and translator John Ciardi eloquently argued. "Those who care," Ciardi wrote, "have a duty to resist. Changes that occur against such resistance are tested changes. The language is the better for them -- and for the resistance." It is regrettable that RHD-II resists so little. But it is admirable that it erects such a splendid...
This is the lightest of the poems by various hands, liberally scattered through the text. Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" recalls an oversize catch: "victory filled up/ the little rented boat . . . until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!/ And I let the fish go." John Ciardi celebrates "The Lung Fish," a survivor intact from prehistoric epochs: "If no/ creature is immortal, some/ are more stubborn than others." And Robert Lowell hopes that "when shallow waters peter out," he will be able to "catch Christ with a greased worm" and save his soul. The Fisherman notes, "Lowell was a Christian...
Henderson's two-run homer to greet Brewer reliever Mark Ciardi made it 6-2 in the third inning...