Word: ovide
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...same couple, accompanying their college-aged son to the admissions office of a select university, will dress with understated dash (a necklace of wooden, hand-painted beads for her, suede elbow patches and a Dunhill pipe for him), intersperse comments on their reading ("One always comes back to Ovid as if for the first time") with reminiscences of "the old days at Chicago...
When the Roman poet Ovid wrote this supplication, "the present time" was roughly the time of Christ, when it was far easier to think of gods becoming men, beasts or monsters and to see the palpable world as the creature of unseen magical forces...
...League in this case). Cheever has infiltrated the permissive, prosperous characters who people High Suburbia and is apt to show up on the cocktail terrace or dining room to disconcert his agnostic friends with a pulpit message and scandalize the merely pious by preaching it on a text from Ovid involving the couplings of goddesses and beasts...
Wait for a fine day, a day in which the heavens are appropriate to the plant of which Ovid has written...
Widely known for his interpretations of other writers-his works include a graceful translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a critique of Amy Lowell and her times, and A History of American Poetry-Litterateur Horace Gregory, 63, last week was honored for his own urbane verse with the 1961 fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. A fulltime writer since a 1960 illness ended his 26-year teaching career at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, the Milwaukee-born poet reported "surprise" at his selection by a panel of other poets, including W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore...