Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, announced that several more distinguished persons, besides Robert Frost, have agreed to be resident visitors...
...Every time Robert Frost comes to town," wrote the New York Times's Washington bureau chief, James ("Scotty") Reston, "the Washington Monument stands up a little straighter." Flinty old (83) Poet Frost proved to Pundit Reston that he is no slacker at punditry himself. Frost welcomes the struggle and decision-making that make life tough-and neither the Russians, nor their satellites (terrestrial or spatial) upset him a bit: "We ought to enjoy a standoff. Let it stand and deepen in meaning. Let's not be hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with...
Williams seemed to want to purvey the image of our century's archetypal poet, a very complicated and often irresponsible but enchanting man as good, old, sweet, kind and tolerant Dylan, poet and good fellow, a few steps away from Mr. Chips or Robert Frost or De Lawd in Green Pastures. In short, Mr. Williams's choice of material and his rendition of it have a tinge of the sacdharine as well as a bit of pleasant nostalgia which fail in part to hit the personality of the man or be very characteristic of his work...
...Robert Frost will visit Adams House this year on the newly increased Ford Foundation grant to the Houses, Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams, has disclosed. Student and faculty committees in Dudley and the other Houses have also made tentative plans for use of the grant which this year totals...
...Frost will speak to House members at a closed session sometime next month, Brower said. The poet also plans "to do something with students" in a more informal way, and perhaps will read with a group of Adams House writers and poets. Brower emphasized that these events would not be public affairs and admission would be by ticket issued only to members of Adams House...