Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They start off in 1974 And do updates for every media whore: A Nixon comeback, to Park Avenue, For a Dick who should have done sepuku A million bucks from David Frost he took. To tell the nation he is not a crook. Of all the comebacks, though, this is the worst: The "contented mom" that was Patty Hearst. Then I grab the mag. I almost toss it. More annoying drip from Farrah Faweett...
...still the dominant local legend. As a resident, Novelist David Kaufelt (Six Months with an Older Woman) is fond of explaining, "Hemingway is our first literary ghost, the big marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts." Robert Frost, Hart Crane and John Dos Passes are only a few of the competing ghosts. By now live writers are so thick on the ground that the pink stucco Monroe County Public Library publishes a pamphlet: Key West: Writers in Residence (latest announced total...
...Robert Frost was right: "To be social is to be forgiving." Your story analyzed the subject of forgiveness with amazing depth and managed to relate ethics, politics and theology in a coherent...
...terms, though, Ike seemed archaic and gray. The virile young man in top hat who rode with him down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1961 had promised to "get the country moving again." That bright Inauguration Day, Kennedy brought Robert Frost to read a special poem for the occasion. The glare of sun on new-fallen snow bunded the aged poet, and so he recited another poem from memory. The poem he did not read that day contained these lines for the Kennedy...
...Frost had caught just the spirit of the venture, with a confidence about the uses of power and ambition that now seems amazing. Kennedy took office with extraordinary energy and the highest hopes. He seemed in some ways the perfect American. As Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin points out, he exemplified two usually contradictory strains in American tradition. One is the immigrant experience, the old American story of the luckless or disfavored or dispossessed who came from Europe and struggled in the New World. Rooted in that experience is the glorification of the common man and the desire for a common...