Word: hail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that poets themselves have ever avoided politics as subject matter. Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, all found ways to hail or rage against kings and governments through their work. Yeats, unpolitical as anyone could look in his fluffy neckties, wrote stinging political lines. As did Robert Lowell. As does Seamus Heaney. W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939 is a beautiful muddle of a poem on Europe in the shadow of war. Bertolt Brecht's To Posterity, about Germany under the Nazis, is clear as a bell...
...also acknowledged the performances of sophomore Nick Gianuzzi--who scored two goals against Brown, including a Hail Mary with seconds remaining in the match--and freshman Nick Branca...
...Hail Mary...
...Hail Mary...
...Catholic school--Boston College--briefly moved into the spotlight on the strength of Doug Flutie and his "Hail Mary" pass against Miami. BC lost the national championship that year to the Mormons...