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...work or his opponents might imply, a cold-hearted man whose body bears the wings and feathers of the pigeons he has used in research. Rather, he is the writer who, during his senior year at Hamilton College, sent off his short stories to Robert Frost, who thought that Skinner's prose was the best he had read the whole year. He is the poet who composes love sonnets and witty verse. He is the actor who devotes time to his play-reading group. He is the educator who invented the teaching machine and programmed instruction. He is the father...
Fifty-four minutes and three seconds later, man and dogs crossed the finish line, their faces masked in a film of frost. Attla's run-at an average of close to 20 m.p.h.-clipped six minutes off the course record. His reward: two trophies and a purse of $1,650. The next day, with Ely recovering from apres-sled festivities, Attla and his Huskies were in his ¾ton truck, rolling down State Route 169 toward Colorado and another race...
...have never felt the need to become literate ... never kill for applause"). He is pleased to encounter again on his native turf that "unsullied sister of Smog," good old English Fog. In a miniautobiography he offers thanks to helpful friends and models (among them: Hardy, Dylan Thomas, Frost, Yeats, Brecht, Kierkegaard, Goethe and Horace). Plato, however, rates a putdown ("I can't imagine anything/ that I would less like to be/ than a disincarnate Spirit"). So do the "nimble technicians" of Detroit ("Dark was the day when Diesel/ conceived his grim engine"), partly because they cannot be bothered...
...graphic artists in Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift assemblies of images, and his rest less improvisation tested the limits of defining a print. The latest result includes some of the most remark able graphic images made by a liv ing artist: Rausehenberg's Hoar frost suite, including Mule (see color page...
...records. They do so "with special pride," according to a squib on the back of the box. Columbia's promotion of the lectures has played heavily on Harvard's prestige, and on the prestige of Bernstein's predecessors in the Norton Poetry chair, who include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and e.e. cummings, as well as such composers as Stravinsky, Sessions, and Hindemith...