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...standings, have a potent, but inconsistent, offensive attack Ferdinand Treushacher, one of the junior college All-Americans Brown persuaded to come to smoggy Providence, leads the team in scoring but is well down in the list of Ivy scoring leaders with five points John Drew. Dick McEvoy, and Bill Frost complete the line...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Third-Ranked Booters Host Inconsistent Bruins | 11/18/1972 | See Source »

...maintain the sublime/ In the old sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: The Lost Leader | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...curious lack of compassion, evident in much of his poetry. It was Eliot who best described Pound's weakness, when he wrote, "Pound's hells are for other people." Eliot became a British citizen. Mad Ireland hurt Yeats into poetry. William Carlos Williams had his doctoring. Frost never left New England. In the poetry of the age, Ezra Pound was the lost leader-and the man who never found a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: The Lost Leader | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...Bruins took an early 1-0 lead in the first half and it looked to be a close match. But before the half was over. Brown halfback Bill Frost scored two goals and assisted on a third within the span of five minutes in break the game open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson, Penn Booters Deadlocked in Race; Brown a Close Second With 3 Wins, 1 Loss | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

Breaking Point. The shortages are caused by a combination of Russia's capricious climate and the country's inefficient system of production and distribution. In 1971-72, European Russia was bedeviled by a freak winter, when little snow fell to insulate seeds against record spells of frost. This was followed by a drought during the hottest summer of the century. The resulting crop damage and late harvest taxed the Soviets' inadequate technology to the breaking point. Trucks, harvesting machinery, railroad cars, granaries and manpower all seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Short Supplies | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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