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...direct control of Government. The soaring costs of fuel and food account for about half of the present inflation. But oil prices are dictated by the OPEC cartel, and food prices have been sent skyward by capricious weather. A combination of heavy spring rain, summer drought and early fall frost has already reduced crops of corn, wheat and soybeans, boosting the cost of everything from bread to salad oil, and feed for cattle and hogs. In August alone, the wholesale price of farm and food products rocketed 7.6%, and some Government economists believe that retail food prices could...
...Frost owned a succession of farms in Vermont; during the winter he lived in Boston and later in Cambridge. He was a "halfway farmer," although the half sometimes got out of hand-as when in 1940 it became necessary to eat outdoors at Frost's Ripton, Vt, farm because he had installed a tribe of 100 baby chicks in his kitchen. Eventually a way of life worked itself out: Frost allowed Kathleen Morrison and her husband (then director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference) to live summers in the Ripton farmhouse while the poet moved to a nearby cabin during...
...Morrison had been a hero-worshiper since 1918, when she and other students invited Frost to lecture at Bryn Mawr. He attracted a large circle of personal and professional friends-Mrs. Morrison very much near the head of the list-who thought his pouts and tantrums worth putting up with, and who conspired elaborately to ease him through the last half of his life...
Whatever largeness of nature Frost believed himself capable of is now visible almost entirely in his great body of poetry. Kathleen Morrison focuses mostly on the small things that went into making Frost the man. He knew Latin well. He hated banks, perhaps because when he was a young man a teller mocked him for having a small unearned income. He was a shrewd house carpenter. He loved his collie. He was mortified when he visited Russia and thought (mistakenly) that he was not to be permitted to see Khrushchev...
Here is a piece of Frost, written with diffidence and pictured in a large batch of welcome photographs, many of them done by LIFE'S Howard Sochurek during Frost's 1957 visit to England. The poet is elsewhere, though never so remote that he cannot inform anything that has been written about him. For example, these lines from his long poem on New Hampshire...