Word: frostings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Collegiate was so eager to find out how old it is that Headmaster Richard Barter and Trustee William L. Frost '47 in 1974 sent head librarian David Mallison to Holland to research the school's background...
...lumbers on with no end in sight. Perhaps, in another time, winter's approach would have scared Britain's National Coal Board (NCB), the directorate of the state-owned industry, into granting concessions to the striking miners. The sight of dwindling coal in cellar bins along with the first frost on the windows would have prodded management into giving in to calls for higher wages or more paid holidays...
...that has given his skin the color of a tobacco leaf, he has artfully arranged his schedule so that he is almost always in that half of the globe that is celebrating summer. When his 33-city U.S. tour ends Sept. 29, about the time of the first frost up north, he will race back to his $5 million home in Miami, then flee to the Southern Hemisphere and another round of engagements in South Africa, Australia and Latin America...
...conclusion: Job's "tragedy was that of the happy ending." That sort of throwaway irony seems worthier of an Oscar Wilde epigram than a meditation on a profound theme. The Book of Job has haunted writings as disparate as Mark Twain's novel The Mysterious Stranger, Robert Frost's verse drama A Masque of Reason and Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. It requires more than bursts of wit and flashes of illumination...
Should I offer you wishes? Poets have done that for their children from time to time. In Frost at Midnight Coleridge wishes his son Hartley a life surrounded by nature. I could wish the same for you, though I have less trust in nature's benevolence...