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When President James B. Conant '14 sought to appoint a curator for the new college poetry room in 1932, he personally offered the post to Robert Frost, then at the height of his fame. Frost, who had won the Pulitzer prize the year before for his new Selected Poems, wished the room well but politely said that he preferred to remain at his home in Amherst, Mass...
...Apathy League was organized; nobody came to the meetings. Robert Frost "said" his poems in Sanders Theatre, and Mrs. Roosevelt told us about the United Nations. The Lowell House Musical Society produced Handel's opera, Acis and Galatea as well as Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. A vigorous Brattle Theatre Company presented many plays...
...bookstore's owner would often recommend new books of poetry to Bly. Sometimes, Robert Frost would even come into the store to browse...
...Robert Frost wrote a poem called "Out, Out -" in which a boy using a buzz saw to cut stove wood is momentarily careless and cuts his own hand off, and then dies of shock. The others in the farmyard are stunned. But Frost ends with an interesting chill: "And they, since they/Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs...
...produce energy by fusing light atomic nuclei, mainly hydrogen and helium, into heavier ones. When the hydrogen and helium run low, old stars will sputter out without any new ones to take their place, and the universe will gradually fade to black. Such were the gloomy alternatives that Robert Frost wrote about after being briefed on the theory of the cosmic endgame by the astronomer Harlow Shapley...