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...understand as life." So soon, Lowell had put art and life on a parity. At Harvard, he lolled in his room, surrounded by prints of Leonardo and Rembrandt, listening to Beethoven on his phonograph. He wrote poems full of violence and foreboding, black roses, a "plague" that "breathed the decay of centuries." No one then at Harvard was interested, so Lowell took his verses to Robert Frost, who was living near by. Frost read the first page of the Crusades opus. "You have no compression," he said, and then read aloud a short poem by William Collins, How Sleep...
...five years, Lowell taught at Boston University. In 1959, he published Life Studies, which included 91 Revere Street and some of his best poetry. In Skunk Hour, which evokes a summer's decay, he watches the animals search in the moonlight for food...
...plight of the cities," Kennedy declared at the December mass meeting, "--the physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met...If we here can meet and master our problems, if this community can become an avenue of opportunity and a place of pleasure and excitement for its people, than others will take heart from your example, and men all over the United States will remember your contribution with the deepest gratitude...
...department, Cayce recommended one or two almonds a day as a cancer preventive, peanut-oil massage for diabetes and, to relieve fatigue, foot baths in hot coffee brewed from used grounds. Stearn arrays-or arraigns-a host of witnesses, almost none of them named, who were snatched from certain decay by the diagnoses that Cayce delivered in his trances...
Maybe it is pompous to say that anything less than a national intercollegiate championship represents failure--or at least decay--of squash at Harvard. But after winning five national championships in a row, the squash team bears the burden of a remarkable tradition...