Word: frostings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Militarily and economically, agreed the few Western newsmen in Budapest last week, the Hungarian revolution was at an end. After eight weeks of valiant resistance, the nation's patriots, intellectuals, youths and workers were finding the Communist police system too much for them. Guerrillas were leaving the frost-whipped hills and woods. Factory workers, stood over by Russian "production police," were reluctantly facing their machines...
...LITERARY HERITAGE, by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto Bettmann (246 pp.; Dutton; $8.50), makes up for its uninspired text by providing a rich collection of 500 drawings and photographs that add life and interest to U.S. letters, from Ben Franklin to Robert Frost...
...Gomulka drops his pencil, closes the manila folder on an unfinished speech, a lone late-staying assistant throws a dark overcoat over Gomulka's thin shoulders, and he clumps out to his ZIS limousine, pausing a moment to look across the streets and roofs of Warsaw shining with frost. Not in his office, or in intellectual circles, but out there in the dark bitter cold is the problem he must lick before Poland or the world knows whether he is a real leader...
...Frost also read two short poems on California, a new work inspired by a walk at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and another about Gus, a stray dog who came to visit...
...Frost chided poets who write to make readers read learned footnotes. Chaucer and Shakespeare, he noted, did not use them. He considered his own metaphors relatively simple, but urged readers to hear more than the "vowels, the consonants, and the syllables...