Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...
...mixture while the other pumps the long handle to press the brick into shape at a pressure of about 10,000 lbs. per sq. in. In two days it can turn out enough brick to build a hut-sized house, is light enough (140 lbs.) to be packed by mule to backwoods villages, inexpensive enough to serve even the most. depressed areas. The machine costs about $50 to produce, makes rock-hard bricks for less than a penny apiece...
Bland Challenge. As Secretary Dulles remarked at his press conference, there was some evidence that the presence of the 100-man U.N. Observation Group slowed deliveries of arms and men from Syria. Half-jokingly, Jumblatt told U.N. officers that where he formerly got a mule train of supplies every night, a caravan now arrived only every second or third night "because of you people." By contrast, the government's forces had plenty of arms, and last week U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock announced that additional U.S. shipments were...
...wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
Although a few composers, among them Ibert, Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud, have since written for the saxophone, serious Saxophonist Mule, 56, still feels like a man without a musical country. It pains him to hear of abuses such as those practiced by the rock 'n' roll players who put chewing gum in the sax to dull its glorious tone. Mule notes sadly that even at the Paris Conservatory, where he is professor of saxophone, most of his students graduate into jazz or military music. "I have one mission in life," he says. "That is to make people...