Word: poe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't look rusty. He let Dave Poe and Pat Conway pick up a first down on the UMass 25 and then turned to the play that had worked best for McCluskey: the option sweep, with the quarterback either carrying the ball around end himself or pitching back to a trailing halfback if the traffic is rough...
Three summer school faculty members judged teh competition, and prizes were based on the entire portfolio submitted by each poe. Winners, however, read only selected poems yesterday, and the poems prinetd on page three are only samples of the work of the winners...
...Masque of the Red Death dusts off a trifling Poe classic and adapts it to fit the collected smirks of Vincent Price. Poe's original described a masked ball at which the vulgar Prince Prospero and all his company succumb when Death appears disguised as a plague victim. In the elegant, elongated movie version, Prospero is a Satanist who scourges the entire 12th century countryside. He tortures peasants, tries to corrupt a village maid, and lets his pet dwarf barbecue a guest. Fortunately, by the time Death gets to the party, most of the nicer people have fled...
...Lawrence, who was a We group unto himself, wrote as wittily as anybody in his generation about the works of Melville, Hawthorne, Poe and Whitman, found that they proclaimed "a stranger on the face of the earth"-the stranger being the American consciousness. America both fascinated and infuriated Lawrence, and his famed Studies in Classic American Literature was shrill, derisive, but continuingly provocative. The Symbolic Meaning, a collection of earlier versions of the same essays, is considerably calmer in tone, but both versions bear the unmistakable stamp of Lawrence's chaotic, irascible mind. He saw the underlying theme...
...Yourselfers. But the method has drawbacks and dangers. The WAVE developed gout* and anemia. It was the gout, and not hunger, that made her break her fast. Poe, the 550-pounder, also developed gout, and had a dangerous drop in blood pressure when he stood up. Four other patients showed the same drop in blood pressure. Only five men came through with no serious side effects, and none of these had lost more than...