Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth to give any vivid impression of these writers. His sympathies were never deeply engaged by the new writing of the Hemingway generation, and many of his generalizations about it will seem pallid to literature's more passionate pilgrims...
First, he told them the news they wanted to hear-about how the steamer, Frost, was all set to boom the pulpwood across Lake Mooselookmeguntic. Then he told them about the men he had seen at the other lumber camps. After a while he worked around to religion, passed out some leaflets and invited the men to look at the Bibles and paper-covered Gospels he had piled on the table. Most of his congregation were French Canadians who understood little of what Pastor Burger had said, but they were glad to find "La Sainte Bible...
...only public appearance at the University during the term, Eliot's reading is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund that has sponsored readings this year by poets Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and John Clardi...
Three over poets--Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and John Clardi--have given readings under the fund's sponsorship during the past two terms...
...Frost has just returned from Berkeley, where the University of California conferred an honorary degree upon him. He is at present George B. Tichnor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth...