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...Terry Frost, 45. Abandoning the bakery where he decorated "three thousand bleeding hot cross buns at 4 o'clock in the morning," Frost went to war in 1939, spent four years in German prison camps. "I remember watching the last golden leaf fall from a tree across the wire in Bavaria," he recalls. "It was a terrible loss." Now a Cornwall man like Lanyon, he says: "I've got a feeling I'm losing the landscape. I'm getting nearer and nearer to pure abstract painting. I want conflict and contrast...
Like Robert Frost after him, Whitman was first acclaimed in Britain; in the native land he celebrated, he was long left to push his own barrow. In one letter he is found trying to promote a visit to the U.S. of the prestigious Alfred Tennyson. His letter to the poet is curious on three counts. With its evocation of the "seething mass" of America and its "measureless crudity," it gives a prose version of his poetic vision. As such, its effect was only to scare off a poetic grandee, and it showed a naively crude Marxist notion of culture...
...Daily, the U.S. garment industry's trade paper, asked if she ever read the publication. Jackie, sensitive to W.W.D.'s criticism of her preference for French clothiers, bridled. "Hardly ever?any more," she replied. The reporter persisted: Didn't she ever glance at Women's Wear Daily? Said Jackie, frost creeping into her voice...
...Robert Frost, poet Litt.D...
Concentrating on such dry fare as course papers, it seems to me, means abandoning a premise that the late Dan Frost operated on when he started the Journal: that most courses and tutorials at Harvard present stylized, narrow, and sectarian approaches to their material, and that a publication like the Journal ought to give students a chance to transcend the limitations of course writing. What the capable papers in the May issue--with the possible exception of Campbell's--badly lack is freshness, the freshness that comes when people stop thinking about external requirements and write about things they...