Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first prize went to Charles O. Hartman for his poem "Theseus." The winning poem is printed on page...
...equator, but it can get mighty chilly there at night, as Film Star Jimmy Stewart, 62, and family discovered on their visit to the country's high (altitude 6,000 ft.) and windy Aberdare Hills. Shivering in the 45° air, Actor Stewart was inspired to write a poem about it-demonstrating that Euterpe is not his muse. Sample: "They've never known the temperature/Thermometers just fail./ For, when exposed, the mercury/ Just sinks below the scale...
...macharismo"-the requisite Latin American machismo mixed with political charisma. Dressed casually wherever he went, he dined with peasant families, spoke informally about national problems and debated with students whenever he could. Defending the jailing of rioters, he said: "Not one was arrested for writing a novel or a poem or for his way of thinking." The students were not always prepared to listen. In Chihuahua, they dug a moat to bar his entourage from campus...
...Poem on the Lisbon Earthquake, Voltaire wrote...
Bettman, calling his Ode a "monument to obscurity," said that he agreed with what Elliott had written, but added that his poem was probably a little more circumspect about...