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...question-an Italian, a Frenchman, a Yugoslav, a Greek -are the generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...
...scientists described the aerial mapping techniques that were used with great success to pick relatively solid sites for DEW line stations. Norwegian engineers explained how simple insulation prevents frost-heaving beneath their rail lines. Refrigerated well linings were described as an approach to keeping permafrost in place, but refrigerated building foundations, widely heralded a few years back, were rejected as too expensive to be practical...
...week's end Kennedy flew to Amherst College, where he accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and paid his homage to artists in America in a speech at ground-breaking ceremonies for the school's Robert Frost Library. "Where power corrupts, poetry cleanses," said Kennedy. "I see little of more importance to our country and our civilization than recognition of the place of the artist. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth...
...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display...
...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display...