Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program will also include greetings to recently created Harvard professors emeriti, and the presentation by the Class of 1917 of the customary cash gift to the University by the 25th year reunion class. President Conant will address the Alumni, giving a report on the major features of the Harvard year and announcing the gifts to the University. President Warren will announce the results of the elections of members of the Board of Overseers, Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Music for the program will be the University Choir...
...average observer than a case chock full of implements from which he will probably turn away in complete boredom. On the fifth floor, there is a collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this gift is a curious one: a few years ago the Institute sent a former Anthropology 1 section man to the Arctic region to see if he could exist on meat alone. While there he gathered together these mummies, which the "Meatpackers" later presented the Museum. Near this exhibit is a collection...
...plus outweighs the minus in A Witness Tree, and Frost remains in this book a first-rate poet and a natural American. How timely a thing this is, readers of Frost's unexampled historical poem, The Gift Outright, will quickly discern...
...deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become. Whatever America becomes, she will bear, to her lasting beautification, the pioneer trace of Robert Frost...
Technically in the tradition of Hart Crane and Whitman, these poems rely almost entirely upon the forceful phrase for their effect. Brinnin displays an unparalled gift for shaping the everyday word into a biting, meaningful symbol, and the use of sharp contrast adds force to this verse. If his meter seems colorless, it must be remembered that many of these poems were designed for the use of creative dance groups and thus gain force if read aloud. One may hope that in the future Mr. Brinnin's metrical talent will develop alongside his gift for the phrase, and that...