Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poem? the older man asked. An attempt at a poem, I answered. Then I added: "Ho Chi Minh was a poet, was he not?" "Yes," said the man. "Yes, Ho Chi Minh was a poet...
Poet Phyllis McGinley, though she feels that "women are certainly as bright, if not brighter than men," and are biologically tougher into the bargain, has her doubts about the radical fringe of the movement. In a poem from her collection, Times Three, she sums up her feelings this...
...criticism, though journalists can still be tried and jailed for publishing "antinational propaganda." It is best to keep criticism obscure, as in the case of Eighteen Texts, a book recently published in Athens. Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient...
...second prize went to Eric Lenk, a Harvard junior, for his "Three Songs (For Mary)." The third prize, $10, was awarded to Betsy Schell, who teaches English at LaSalle Junior College, for her poem "Ad ripa...
...following is the first-prize poem in this summer's poetry contest. Its author, Charles O. Hartman, received a $25 first prize...