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...bound to have differences and disappointments-and we are equally bound to voice them, to bring them out into the open, to settle them when they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled. We have not forgotten the poet Robert Frost's reminder that 'good fences make good neighbors...
...political ideas--they are too simple and undeveloped to be called doctrine--derive from these ideals. He will quote a poignant phrase from Ghandi and then sing We Shall Overcome, which has become closely connected with the integration sit-in movement. Or he will read a poem of Frost about human dignity and play Banks of Marble, which wonders about social injustice: "I have seen the weary miner scrubbing coal-dust from his back, I have heard his children crying 'got no coal to heat our shacks.'" This is the heart of Seeger's politics, not views on the Republican...
...museum to the cover of TIME, but his work sets him apart as one of the finest veteran portraitists going. One of his best portraits made news last week when Amherst College announced that it had bought for its permanent collection his 1929 painting of Poet Robert Frost...
...twelve years before, and they took to each other-and to each other's work-at once. Frost, who was still poor and comparatively unknown, was delighted to have Chapin illustrate his volume of poems North of Boston. By 1929, fame had come to both men, and Frost was the pride of the Amherst faculty. That year Chapin went up to the college town to begin his portrait...
...took over a year to finish it: long before brush was put to canvas, he did sketch after sketch of Frost's hands, his head, his posture. "I can't explain it very well," Chapin once said, "but it is the symbolic human gesture that interests me -not the gesture of hands and feet but the carriage of the human body and the human head." Here, the carriage is erect, proud, quietly intense, with wisdom coiled inside like a spring...