Word: housman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiniest stately home in England. The empire's finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers contributed to the miniature royal household: Doulton sent a gilded china service for 18 (including 22 serving and covered vegetable dishes); Waygood Otis built two working elevators; and Cartier made seven clocks and two barometers. A.E. Housman, who allowed some of his poems to be copied small for the 200-book library, commented: "I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover...
...becomes friends with a terminally ill homosexual who is manning an AIDS hotline. Amanda's status as a potential gymnastic champion is more than a gimmick; it provides a standard by which her physical deterioration and emotional growth are measured. The little tumbler is a reminder that when A.E. Housman wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young," he did not mean this young. At Risk is a one-hankie book and could be a two-hankie movie. Not to worry. No , one ever got sick from crying. Tears, in fact, make good medicine...
...time, and as it rushed at express train speed for the first turn, the crew all cried 'Ga-a-a-a-r!' and the bob roared in an icy smother around the curve and dropped off down the glassy run below." The ands do it. Everything must keep moving. Housman celebrated an "athlete dying young" because the boy would never have to learn that eventually things slow down, grow old, stop...
Farmers need seasons. In a lovely, squat little verse to the month of March, A.E. Housman wrote: "So braver notes the stormcock sings/ To start the rusted wheel of things,/ And brutes in field and brutes in pen/ Leap that the world goes round again...
Several faculty also contributed. Housman said that John Womack Jr. '59, chairman of the History department, provided Community Works with a list of faculty members whom he though would be sympathetic to the cause...