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...really didn’t cover him well,” Dartmouth safety Phil Frost admitted...
...Does this new information mean we're back in the figurative woods? Should we all start hoping for an early frost and an end to mosquito season? As with many news stories, things on the West Nile front aren't nearly as bad as they may seem...
...with Springsteen has spread to our 70-year-old parents; they have even attended shows with us [MUSIC, Aug. 5]. My father has labeled Springsteen a "true American poet for our generation"--this from a man who attended Amherst College and spent afternoons immersed in the poetry of Robert Frost. Listening to the words of the songs on Bruce's new album, The Rising, brings me comfort as I try to digest all that has happened this past year. His commanding us to "rise up" from the events of Sept. 11 is like a preacher instructing his congregation. I pray...
...grant an indulgence, plenary or perennial, To Ogden Nash on his centenary, or centennial. He trod 'mongst giants like Eliot and cummings and Thomas and Kazantzakis and Frost and Yevtushenko and Neruda and Schwartz (now all dead) In a day when poets were not only renowned but read. True, Nash did not quite roost in the exalted company of these Everest nest-dwellers, But he published more than 20 volumes of extremely popular light verse, and if he dwelt in cellars, they were best-cellars. He wrote, he lectured, and he was not too arch or arty To appear...
...here, can sometimes be off-putting (one wonders if the letters included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part of the correspondence inspired by that legendary m?salliance), these letters are filled with wonderfully caustic appraisals of everything from Robert Frost ("partly a dreadful old fraud and one of the most relentless self-promoters in the history of American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera house in the newly-constructed Lincoln Center ("a miracle of bad taste and ineptitude"), as well as the financial perils of the freelance life (some...