Word: frosts
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...intrigued some famous tourists, including Edith Sitwell and W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen and E.M. Forster, who praised the author's "sensitiveness, visual and tactile." The style-struck critic Cyril Connolly described Welch's prose as ripening "like an October pear that measures every hour of sunshine against the inevitable frost...
...That's because I am a stutterer--even now, after a long career as an actor. I understand there are some wonderful techniques used today to solve a problem like mine, but in my day I just had Professor Crouch. Donald Crouch was a professor who had known Robert Frost and had taught at some of the same Midwestern universities. He retired to this small community in Brethren, Mich., where my high school was--and he couldn't stand it. So he dropped his plow--he was a farmer--and came down to our little agricultural high school because...
...Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...
...West is an island with an almost unrivaled literary tradition, stretching back to Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Frost, and even today it houses more Pulitzer Prize winners per capita than any city in the United States...