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...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberation Alliance, a newly-formed radical coalition, is organizing a day of radical education this Friday in the Longfellow Hall...
...remarks came after a tea in Longfellow Hall at which he was guest of honor. At the tea Moynihan expressed amazement that "the idea that there existed a federal conspiracy to kill Black Panthers gained credibility on campuses...
...extremely difficult, if not fruitless, to criticize poetry a century after it is written. The modern reader can not have the correct appreciation for Melville's verse, because modern tastes have completely redefined what is acceptable in poetry. Tennyson, Longfellow, Byron, Shelley, all sound strange and forced to the car accustomed to Eliot or Pound. Melville really has to be accepted for what he is, and what his times were...
...REMEMBER the first time I read "The Fish." I was in ninth grade at a new school, very timid and very scared, and I knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently because it was written about my brother's birthday. I didn't enjoy reading poems; they were difficult, and I didn't think they were interesting enough to make the difficulty worthwhile. But I had a young and very good English teacher that year, and he put "The Fish" in front...
...Pilgrims do not deserve the sentimental image created for them by Longfellow and his contemporaries in the 19th century, when the name Pilgrim itself finally began to catch on.* They had to be, and were, considerably tougher to surmount the brutal odds threatening their survival-one aspect of the myth that has not been exaggerated. During the first winter, cold, disease and famine cut their number in half-13 out of the 18 wives who came on the Mayflower died. More might have perished had not an early landing party stolen Indian corn from buried caches-a find they considered...