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...professorship is held annually by an individual of distinguished achievement in the fine arts. Last year the position remained unfilled when none of those invited were able to accept. Past holders include T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Aaron Copland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poet, Critic Muir To Deliver First Of Talks Tonight | 11/9/1955 | See Source »

...other poetry in Paris Review 10 is not on a par with "Sequence In Venice." Adrienne Cecile Rich's "The Tree" states a Frost-like theme (silent, unresponsive nature capable of instilling fear, frustration and solace in man) with a disappointing lack of economy. "The Ballad of Mother and Son" by Wilfred Watson contains some rather wild metaphors which are utterly mystifying. "I saw God like a trout in a creek" probably means that the speaker had a flashing glimpse of God, but "trout," "creek," and "God like a trout" seem extraneous and forced, if not totally meaningless. The other...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey jr., | Title: The Paris Review 10 | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

...some of them certainly are clever On the subject of "Home," for instance, there is the statement by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." A brilliant saying in the topic of "Economics" goes like this: "When we speak of bum steers in the stock market, we aren't talking about farming." This last saying certainly embodies" a great truth," just as Mr. Prochnow promised. Its author, incidentally, is Herbert V. Prochnow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Humor on the Hoof | 10/18/1955 | See Source »

...Lexington, the nation's top three-year-old trotter, Scott Frost, winner of the Hambletonian and Yonkers Futurity, came on, after losing the first heat, to win the $62,702 Kentucky Futurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Bison & Oxen. The fame of the school of mines soon spread to the whole institution. The university's 13-building campus is uniquely equipped to give special training. Its geologists have studied the chemistry of the arctic's soil and the effect of frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: North-Country Challenge | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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