Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think it should have gone years ago to Robert Frost," commented J. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...
...balance of the cold war. Once again a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
Brower said that Frost's surprise appearance yesterday was typical of him. At Amherst he often gave unannounced lectures to classes ranging from Greek to physics...
...Frost's readings, together with his examinations and asides, drew a standing ovation from the audience. He read some of his most famous poems, including "Birches," and some recent works, including "Gift Outright," the poem he wrote for President Kennedy's inauguration...
...Frost has had a long-standing association with Harvard. He was an undergraduate here for two years before the turn of the century. He was a Ralph Waldo Emerson fellow during the 1930's. He is also an associate of Adams House...