Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at Brown University this week made 10 mock graves complete with tombstones, moss, and flowers in preparation for this weekend's meeting of Brown's governing boards. The trustees' main agenda item: should the University divest?
Nine of the graves signify people who died fighting apartheid in South Africa and slavery in America. The 10th grave stands for the people yet to die in the struggle, said N. Andrew Cohen, general manager of the Brown Daily Herald. The pro-divestment activists are keeping a round-the...
Stallone recently chatted with New York Daily News columnist Pete Hamill about his lifestyle in Switzerland while 58,000 Americans were being sent to their graves in Southeast Asia.
Graves' poetry was more austere and subdued. He took no part in the stylistic revolution launched by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. His poems stubbornly scanned and usually rhymed. In The White Goddess (1948), he built a huge edifice of eccentric scholarship to prove a personal point: poetry arose in...
In the 1960s it was back to the future. Indeed, the future was now, and adults were encouraged to behave like children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children...