Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Frost last night treated his hearers in the Adams House Common Room to whimsical discourse on what should be expected from poetry, and read several of his poems...
...question often raised by friends and antagonists is whether he is radical or conservative. Last night Mr. Frost with gentle satire hinted at the answer. For him, he explained, the question is not one of revolutions, but rather of deciding how wide one's sympathies should extend. Sympathy can be too sweeping, he affirmed, and warned that "perfection of anything breaks through to its opposite--what we have in Russia today...
...always had a particular rule to go by: When you feel one lecture pall, stay at home and cut them all. Naturally, this rule was easy to follow and Vag would certainly have spent the day comfortably at home had it not been for the Crimson notice: Robert Frost will speak on "perfection of Sympathy." Vag decided he would have to change his mind and hear this one. Rules were really made to be broken...
...rationalizing of his change of mind stop there: Vag had a keen sense of justice and he didn't like to be prejudiced in his judgement. In all the times that he had attended Frost's lectures through the fall, he had never been bored by dogmatism. "Take it or leave it" was the poet's principle. Frost always seemed cavalier about the whole thing. That was it, cavalier. Mr. Frost had used the word himself--students should all take a cavalier attitude toward their work, letting what stuck, stick, and forgetting the rest. It was a perfect formulation...
Indeed, Vag had always had a feeling of kinship with Frost, the patron saint of all vagabonds . . . that would be a good idea, too: asking Frost to be the Honorary Chairman of his one-man organization. He'd heard a lot about one-man organizations recently. Anyway, Vag decided that he must hear Frost tonight, and planned to get there early, sit in front and watch the subtle, humorous play of expression over the poet's face when he spoke, Adams House tonight at eight...