Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the many shortcomings of literary life in the U.S. is its lack of a mean old man. There are plenty of lovable old men-Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Henry Miller-but no old curmudgeon who clubs young reporters with a tongue like a blackthorn stick and sends them scurrying back to their editors filled with terror and fine quotes. It is a grievous lack. Almost every other part of U.S. society has had such a man: the House of Representatives had its Uncle Joe Cannon, the tobacco industry its George Washington Hill, labor its John L. Lewis and baseball...
Accepting his humptyninth award-the MacDowell Colony Medal from the Academy of American Poets-white-maned Poet Robert Frost, 88, fixed his affectionate audience with a mock-sincere twinkle in his eye and quite clearly said: "I wish my mother could...
...Robert Frost: "When you know Frost's poems you know surprisingly well what the world seemed to one man . . . to have this whole range of being treated with so much humanity and sadness and composure, with such plain truth; to see that a man can still include, connect, and make humanly understandable . . . so much-this is one of the freshest and oldest joys...
...Romantic Women Poets: "Elinor Wylie was the most crystalline . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay the most powerful and most popular. One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers: if only there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes...
Monroe Engel '42, lecturer in English, felt that "there are obviously more deserving people around who've been passed over too long." Engel agreed with Bush and Alfred that Frost would have been a more logical choice...