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...fact that there seem to be no criteria, no opposition, not even an insistence on the artist's uniqueness or individuality-the very claim that used to animate artistic revolutions. More and more people are beginning to feel that the current state of art, as Robert Frost said of free verse, is like playing tennis without...
...present, after all, is a ghost of less substance than the unmelting snows that mantle his youth. "The snow is real," he writes, imagining some long-ago blizzard, "and as I bend to it and scoop up a handful, 60 years crumble to glittering frost-dust between my fingers...
...ruling in this case represents a policy decision that may have major consequences for similar programs across the country. According to the national director of Upward Bound, Richard Frost, it means that the Office of Economic Opportunity has resolved to use the $2.5 million appropriations increase it received for Upward Bound from Congress to begin new programs, instead of increasing the effectiveness of those already in existence. Many of these programs, like the one in Cambridge, are barely hanging on. But OEO is under intense pressure to spread funds thin and make the President's War on Poverty visible...
...ROBERT FROST: THE EARLY YEARS, by Lawrance Thompson. An expert and surprising portrait of the poet as a precious, mixed-up young man who had to work hard to become a serene country sage...
...discovery of methanelike compounds on Mars, Kaplan believes, leaves only one important obstacle to life on the red planet: the apparent lack of water in liquid form. What little Martian water there is exists as polar-cap frost or vapor in the atmosphere; there are no oceans or even lakes similar to those in which the first terrestrial life evolved. "It would be a strenuous climate for life," says Kaplan, "but then not all life-even on earth-requires liquid water...