Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What this country needs is a great poem. Something to lift people out of fear and selfishness. Every once in a while someone catches words out of the air and gives a nation an inspiration. We need something to raise our eyes beyond the immediate horizon. A great nation can't go along just watching its feet. I'd like to see something simple enough for a child to spout in school on Fridays. I keep looking for it but I don't see it. Sometimes a great poem can do more than legislation...
Morrison is the author of a poem entitled "The Serpent in the Clouds" and has been a contributor to various magazines both in this country and abroad. He has been connected with the Alumni Bulletin in the capacity of book review editor until his retirement to take up his new duties this year...
...Congregational Church and play opera on the organ. He also composed there, trying out orchestral effects with the stops and filling the house with his big voice. After graduation he organized the Princeton Conservatory of Music. The Princeton Orchestra still plays as something of a tradition the symphonic poem Le Cure et le Mart (The Priest and the Corpse) which an amiable French professor accepted in lieu of thesis when Bob Crawford was in danger of flunking the course...
...life have not been widely known until this year, bicentenary of his birthday. More or less newsworthy have been the revelations that he did not smoke; ordered his wife's dresses; that he was a shrewd landowner who left an estate of $1,000,000; that a poem "On Christmas Day" which he was supposed to have composed was copied from an old book. A George Washington story known to few persons remained to be made current by Editor Charles Edward Thomas of The Delta, publication of Sigma Nu fraternity. This, made public last week, was how George Washington...
...House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show...