Word: janus
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...Janus (by Carolyn Green) calls for somewhat faint praise but need not be damned by it. A pleasant enough, light sex farce that brings an American touch of wackiness to a French-style exercise in sin, it concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus...
Following LaFarge's address, John L. Sweeney, poet and curator of the poetry rooms, delivered a poem, "An Arch for Janus," written for the occasion. In homage to Henry Adams, it was inspired by the line "All experience is an arch, to build upon," in "The Education of Henry Adams...
John Sweeney will read "An Arch for Janus" as the traditional Phi Beta Kappa poem...
...Janus by the fire with double
...Janus sit by the fyr, with double herd, And drinketh of his bugle-horn...