Word: frosts
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...Jarrell wrote like an angel, it was often an avenging one. But the same fierce gaiety that could make him lethal also made him the most generous of praisers. He proselytized ardently for Whitman and Frost a generation ago, when both tended to be dismissed, or admired for the wrong reasons. He upbraided Auden for sometimes frittering away magnificent skills: "Auden's laundry list would be worth reading-I speak as one who's read it many times, all rhymed and metered." But Auden's best, he maintained in a review reprinted in this new collection...
...here Miamians usually add, "of course"--and wrote to her friend Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railroad, begging him to bring his railroad down so more people could visit the area. Flagler laughed; nobody would want to go that far south, he said. Then came the frost of 1896 that destroyed most of Florida's orange crop. The frost didn't reach Fort Dallas, however, and Tuttle saw her chance. She plucked some orange blossoms off a tree in the yard of her hotel and sent them to Flagler. He was impressed. He brought the railroad...
Some habitat owners with older properties, like Jim Franks of Santa Cruz, Calif., leave all their fruit and berries for their wild guests-which may include such nonfriends as skunks and snakes. "What the hell," says one wildlife friend, paraphrasing Robert Frost: "The land was theirs before it was ours...
...future's masters, or an interesting breed of chimps. English writers were especially bemused. They arrived the way an ex-wife might visit the home of a remarried husband, some years after a messy divorce: the exwife, dressed to kill, encases her maddened curiosity in a ladylike frost. She notices things brutally, and repeats them when she gets home. Mrs. Frances Trollope reported back to England in 1832 that Americans gorge their food with "voracious rapidity"; they swill, guzzle, spit and pick their teeth with pocket knives. In Cincinnati, she related, cows are nonchalantly milked at the house door...
...election nights, Pierre Trudeau usually has an apt quote in his pocket from the popular homily Desiderata ("Go placidly among the noise and haste"). But for his moment of triumph last week he borrowed from Robert Frost. As the cheers welled around him, the once and future Prune Minister quoted from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep...