Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item, but it is not without its meaning: I am speaking of the ritual President-elect Kennedy has established of meeting the press out in the open with each of his Cabinet appointees, hatless and coatless, in sunshine or frost. It could easily become a fetish. But it is one way, and an elective one, of counteracting the world image of Western decadence that the Communists have tried to spread...
Physicists will admit that the Universe "is the Thing of Things with lots of little balls that go around in rings," Frost said, quoting from one of his poems. However, the scientist rejects the idea that there could be any purpose before man arrived on the scene. And for the scientist, he added, "man's purpose was rather confused until Darwin came along...
...purpose, then there must have been a purpose in creating him, Frost maintained, and "I have a shrewd suspicion--just a shrewd suspicion mind you--that there is an ultimate purpose for man." In order to demonstrate this theme in his poetry, Frost read a varied selection...
Beginning with Revelation, "a little piece I wrote 1000 years ago," he read and recited a series which culminated with Accidentally on Purpose. "Whose purpose was it, his, or hers, or its? I'll leave it to the scientific wits." A departure from the theme to Frost's famous rendition of the Cow That Jumped Over the Moon provided a light note...
...Frost is often asked whether he hates anything. "Yes," he said, "I hate people who ask me if I'm still writing poetry. That judgment is not for me to make...