Word: newe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon aide tonight told New Mobilization leaders that the President "could not comply" with their request for a meeting on Saturday...
Harvard's undefeated cross country team will be running without Tom Spengler Monday in New York, but it still has high hopes of winning the IC4A's for the first since...
PLAGUED by a tradition which seems remote from their own experience. the new poets have struggled to create a style which they could know as their own; drawn, like all the rest of us, into a bias of activity. theirs is essentially a poetry of polities, but not of propaganda. Bly himself has managed to remain a sensitive images and at the same time to carry on his unceasing opposition to the War. Publishing his own periodical. The Sixties (now The Seventies ). has allowed him a vigorous forum for his own aesthetics, which his national prominence has made it impossible...
...Donald Hall converged on a world-which seemed to them intolerably diminished; they revived The Advocate, published their own poems, and decided to become writers. They all did. Hall sailed off to study at Oxford, most of the others ended up in graduate school, and Bly went to New York to live alone. "I got nowhere fast, but I was able to do a lot of reading and thinking that the poets who had stayed on in school were not able...
After nearly three years in New York, living alone ("I didn't even have enough money to take out a girl"), he moved back to his family's farm in Minnesota, and has been in the neighborhood of it ever since. His first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields, collected a group of poems as muffed as a snowstorm in midwinter. They were like quiet songs, spoken out of solitude, poems in which A Man Writes to a Part of Himself. Even then, a nervous aura of crisis crept into his work...