Word: duyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time in the literary jungle. First blood was drawn when the National Book Awards' fiction judges refused to list Erich Segal's bestseller Love Story. Poet Allen Ginsberg, one of the five poetry judges, made known his disgust with his fellow panelists' selection of Mona Van Duyn's To See, To Take by burning incense during the award announcements and castigating the choice as "ignominious, insensitive and mediocre." Miss Van Duyn riposted with a metaphor about a rest-room wall covered with dirty words along with a heart enclosing the names of lovers. "I notice...