Word: merwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This characteristic infelicity of image and language shows how Poet-Translator W. S. Merwin has diluted Lorca's intense lyricism, which in Spanish almost sustains the play. Having no place to go, the play capsizes into melodrama, with Yerma strangling her husband to death in the last scene...
...arms. Excited, young Adlai ran to get a .22-cal. pump rifle, watched wide-eyed while the cadet went through the ritual. When it was over, Adlai took the rifle, began to mimic the performance. The weapon accidentally fired, killing Adlai's 15-year-old cousin, Ruth Mary Merwin...
Then as now, most student political activists were on the left, but the right was by no means inactive. Conservatives Merwin K. Hart Jr. '40 and Sidney Q Curtiss Jr. '40 charged that the money collected for Spanish relief the year before had actually been used for a "communistic demonstration" in Harlem. Their charge provoked how is of protest, and Student Council president Francis Keppel '38 promised to investigate...
...income tax repeal. Federal income tax, says Dr. Carleton Campbell, a veteran ultra who organized the recent Greenwich meeting, is "one of the steps on the Communist chart to take over a country" by taxing the middle class into impotence. "Our goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation." "The United Nations," says Wichita Oilman Fred Koch, "was conceived by Communists in Moscow during World War II." Others believe that urban renewal is intended to wipe out the property rights of loyal American citizens, that...
Last week Iowa's Coad was hurrying around trying to borrow enough money to square himself with the sergeant at arms. His political career plainly was nearing an end, and Coad knew it. Would he go back to being an Iowa minister? "I don't know," said Merwin Coad. "There are many things I have to think about...