Word: maggot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take a tablespoon of mustard, mix in warm water and sprinkle it on an area of lawn about a yard square. In two or three minutes, the worms will wriggle to the surface...
That just about sums up Waugh: The essential stage-Tory, at heart afraid of his own shadow, a maggot in the rotten core of English literature in the first half of this century...
Collage Contemporary Music Ensemble--A chamber group comprised principally of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians presents the Boston premiere of four works: Mazwell-Davies' "Miss Donnithorne's Maggot," conducted by Philip Kelsey; Vincent Luti's "Represa Anticae Moderna," and Betsy Jolas' "Episode" and "Fusain." Also programmed is Carter's Sonata for Cello and Piano. Tickets at $4.00, $2.00 with student I.D. Info 661-3958. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard...
...followers collect the dying from the streets so that they may leave life in peace among friends. They rescue abandoned newborn babies from garbage heaps, nurse them back to health if they can, find homes for them later. They seek out the diseased and the hurt, sponging maggot-bloated wounds as if-an image that sustains them -they were sponging the wounds of Jesus. They have made havens for lepers, the retarded and the mad; they have found work for the jobless. "Not for a second did I think that God would act like this," Mother Teresa told TIME Correspondent...
...alienated nor even suicidal. Yet A.R. ("Archie") Ammons has belatedly emerged as a poet of major stature. Given the present state of poetry, that is not an all-out accolade. Yet at his best, Ammons is a poet who finds high images in the familiar. He celebrates earthworms and maggot flies, the trackless ocean and flooding brooks, and sees them all as shapers of a higher order, an order of diversity and character that makes life infinitely interesting and indomitably self-renewing. If he has a bias, it is praise...