Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet Robert Frost has always tried to write like a man talking. Frost himself talks like a poet, so that it is not always easy to tell whether he is quoting from his works or taking part in a conversation. An English friend once decided that his voice had "the body and tang of good draught cider," but to an Irishman hearing him read his verse it seemed that his words "were flung out from crags-they come to me like the barking of an eagle...
Listeners can now decide whether the Frostian voice is apple juice or eagle, or something better than either-a great, plain poet speaking in homely Vermont cadences. Last March, for the National Council of Teachers of English, 76-year-old Robert Frost recorded 40 minutes of his poetry, and last week the results were released in music shops. Of all the poets whose readings have been recorded (e.g., Vachel Lindsay, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot), it is Frost whose voice rings truest, and adds most to the meaning of the poems...
Listening to the records, many will feel like the Frost fan who once told the poet he never knew how to read Frost until he heard him talk. But as Frost reads Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, The Death of the Hired Man, and 21 others, it becomes plain that, barring shyness, any Vermont hired hand would know how to read the poems right the first time...
...have an altogether different virus. The doctors who isolated the new bug named it the Coxsackie virus. The Coxsackie study showed that the virus had many of the earmarks of polio, but none of its virulence. The disease attacked mostly children and young adults, disappeared with the first frost. There were no deaths and recovery was complete. Beyond that, doctors knew little...
...Ontario. Canadian newspapers unanimously challenged Ottawa to carry out its repeated public notices to build the seaway alone if Congress failed to act this year. Cried the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Anything less would be a betrayal of our national needs and our national future." In Toronto, Premier Leslie Frost tartly remarked: "Now that our friends to the south have decided in their wisdom not to come in with us, we ask that they please get out of the way and let us go ahead with...