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...back to her flat to spend the night. The next morning, in an Auschwitz all her own, she executed what one critic calls her "last unwritten poem." The epithet is appropriate. In the last week of her life she laid bare the heart of her art in a clouting couplet...
...Lowell; and Suzanne Snell '66 and Joel DeMott '67 of Eliot Hall. Almost everyone was stumped by question number 32, which asked for the source of the lines, "Like a summer rose needs the sun and rain, I need your sweet love to heal the pain." This lovely couplet comes from Tommy Hunt's unjustifiably obscure "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself," which is perhaps the greatest song ever made...
...home, Dean Acheson, 72, allowed as how it was not always thus. Perhaps recalling several brushes with Senator Joe McCarthy as well as his Secretary of Stateship during the Korean War, Acheson displayed his precise literary style in a twelve-line poem to the Post's editor. A couplet...
Harvard could well add a pair of lines to the immortal couplet that a sports-writer composed long ago about the two-man pitching staff of the old Boston Braves. With the season 15 games old. The Crimson nine has been unable to , borrow, steal, or excavate another front-line pitcher to go with righthander John Scott and lefthander Jim McCandlish...
...renowned as his daring was Mac's ever-bubbling, extroversive ebullience. Buzzing along over the jungle, he would sing a raucous couplet into his radio for the benefit of ground walkie-talkies in the area...