Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three Russians agreed that translating works in both languages posed a major problem, especially for poetry. "As Robert Frost has said, 'Poetry is what's lost in translation,'" Miss Lurye commented. "However, there are many talented translators in both countries...
Three Russian authors who have been touring the United States for the last three weeks discussed Russian censorship of writers (they insisted there was none), Robert Frost (they loved him), and English translations of Russian works (they don't like prefaces) at a news conference Wednesday...
Miss Lurye and the two men had nothing but praise for Frost whom they had met the day before. "Meeting him is one of the brightest memories I'm going to carry back with me. Robert Frost is a Man with a capital M, and also a genius--the two are closely interwoven," she said...
...most talented young citizens feel that their country today is the most stimulating environment in the world. Says Author-Critic (The Uses of Literacy) Richard Hoggart, 44: "England today is the most exciting country in all Europe. We're facing ourselves, beginning to be honest." Echoes David Frost, 24, a recent Cambridge graduate who presides over the BBC's socko satirical television show, That Was the Week That Was: "We can be the first nation in history that's both a great nation and a totally honest one. We can stop this morale-boosting nonsense...
...sale" ad ran in the Saturday Review: "Robert Frost house. Shaftsbury, Vermont. 150-year-old Cape Cod. Three fireplaces. 150 acres. Studio. Barn. Small pond. Spectacular view. $27,500." Poet Frost, 88, suffering from blood clots and now in a Boston hospital, has not lived in the house since 1939, after his wife died and he turned it over to his daughter-in-law and grandson, Naval Architect William Prescot Frost. Since moving to Oregon, they decided to sell the house where the venerable poet had lived for nearly 20 years. The buyer: a doctor -a "longtime Frost fan"-from...