Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded reality about it. Outside its high fences, the Long Island Rail Road rattles on its rounds and ordinary citizens endure the twice-daily war of commuting. Inside the club, the polite plunk of tennis balls, the whisper of sneakers on trim grass courts, the tinkle of ice in frost-beaded glasses still recall the long-gone white-flannel age of the courts. There, next week, a lanky jumping jack of a girl who grew up in the slums of Harlem will play tennis. She may not belong to any of the clubs that run the tournament, but this year...
Nothing affects business like the weather, and the weather affects every business differently. Snow sells cough drops but slows construction; a wet spring makes farmers buy fungicide by the carload but gives air-conditioner manufacturers the shudders; at the first frost orchids and oranges perish but antifreeze and ski-wax sales bloom again. Yet only a few businessmen can depend on the U.S. Weather Bureau's generalized daily reports for the information they need. To get the precise, specially tailored reports they want, more and more companies are turning to private weathermen, who tell them what the weather will...
Free Love & Bolshevism. He introduced its first undergraduate course in social science, injected large doses of philosophy into the curriculum. He brought in such men as Poet Robert Frost, Author Stark Young and Critic George Whicher. But in trying to reconstruct the college, he infuriated many oldtimers on the faculty. He also irritated his trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit...
...ritual in the traditional robes, white-thatched New England Poet Robert Frost, 82, will be given honorary degrees next month by both Cambridge and Oxford-one of the few Americans to be so honored in recent times. Other Americans to receive the same double distinction: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1868 and Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell in 1873. Said Poet Frost: "I guess you could say this caps my career. After all, I've written only one book-one book of about 600 pages. That's about ten pages a year over a 60-year period...
Eberhart's poetry seems to one with a non-scholarly poetic interest, closest to the poetry of Robert Frost. Both men celebrate New England nature with a similar metaphysical turn. Both men are careful and controlled craftsmen. I think Frost weaves more profundity out of the commonplace; essentially, he is probably closer to nature...