Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arbiter of popular taste in American verse; in Newtown, Conn. A captive of what he called "the poetic ictus," Untermeyer dropped out of a family jewelry business to write poems and later became the editor of more than 50 poetry anthologies, which helped establish such writers as Robert Frost and Amy Lowell. As critic, biographer, satirist and lecturer, Untermeyer helped lead the literary revolt against Victorian gentility and later became one of the most energetic public advocates of the art form he called "an effort to express the inexpressible in terms of the unforgettable...
...nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements as "Conquer America-God what a shoddy ambition," and, like David Frost contemplating a bust of Emmy, "This is the country I want to impress, not the other one, and its approval is now pouring out of the slot like gold...
Price, like Nixon in the David Frost interviews last spring, emphasizes the "humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have...
...themselves to be a fiercely potent scoring unit. Everyone this side of the Mississippi knows that George can put the puck past any goaltender. Last Tuesday Hughes fittingly scored Harvard's first goal of the 1977-1978 campaign. Last night the mustachioed junior twice beat UVM's goaltender Tony Frost with wrist shots seven feet from the crease, for the first two tallies of the contest...
...both on first period goals. Having had a hand in Harvard's first score, Purdy nailed a pass onto Tommy Murray's stick as the freshman blazed toward the UVM goal behind the Catamount defense. Murray deflected a shot on goal, and Hughes cranked the rebound by the sprawling Frost...