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...neared 80, the regime relented, and selections of his work began to appear once again. They proved immensely popular. Trying to explain that popularity, George Gibian, professor of comparative and Russian literature at Cornell, described Seifert as "the grand old man of Czech poetry, a combination of Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings...
Collegiate was so eager to find out how old it is that Headmaster Richard Barter and Trustee William L. Frost '47 in 1974 sent head librarian David Mallison to Holland to research the school's background...
...Frost acknowledged, though, that 17th century Dutch immigrants were "a bunch of grubby traders," while "educators were a dime a dozen in Massachusetts"--and so Harvard's informal teaching history may still predate Collegiate...
...lumbers on with no end in sight. Perhaps, in another time, winter's approach would have scared Britain's National Coal Board (NCB), the directorate of the state-owned industry, into granting concessions to the striking miners. The sight of dwindling coal in cellar bins along with the first frost on the windows would have prodded management into giving in to calls for higher wages or more paid holidays...
...that has given his skin the color of a tobacco leaf, he has artfully arranged his schedule so that he is almost always in that half of the globe that is celebrating summer. When his 33-city U.S. tour ends Sept. 29, about the time of the first frost up north, he will race back to his $5 million home in Miami, then flee to the Southern Hemisphere and another round of engagements in South Africa, Australia and Latin America...