Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROBERT FROST-A PICTORIAL CHRONICLE by KATHLEEN MORRISON 133 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...addition to being a great poet, Robert Frost was the most dazzling performer on the American literary stage since Mark Twain. The impersonation of a mischievous, lovable old sugar maple of a man that he gave while lecturing during the last three decades of his life is still vivid to anyone who came near a college auditorium during that period...
...first State of the Union speech, Eisenhower (or his speechwriter) did a semantic balancing act that would have impressed Aristotle, promising to steer a middle course in foreign affairs "between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly." The poet Robert Frost, growing impatient with Eisenhower's repeated middle-of-the-road metaphor, complained that "the middle of the road is where the white line is ? and that's the worst place to drive." But Eisenhower had a wider middle in mind, which served him well as a political credo. He deplored...
...Nixon's first corporation, Citra-Frost, fail...
...honor makes Lowell the only poet besides Robert Frost to garner the Pulitzer Prize twice. He first won the prize in 1947 for "Lord Weary's Castle...