Word: poem
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Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has had his troubles in the past for criticizing Soviet policies. In recent years, he has also kept up a poetic and suitably critical commentary on the U.S. scene. Last week in Pravda, Yevtushenko published a 111-line poem to Allison Krause, one of the four students killed by National Guard gunfire at Kent State University. His theme was a gesture reportedly made by Allison, 19, on the day before her death. She put a flower in the muzzle of a Guardsman's rifle and said: "Flowers are better than bullets...
...Harvard Advocate printed an utterly standardized little poem of mine, which was just about what a typical mauve little boy of seventeen would predictably enough have written...
...left Harvard by request, without a degree, and have long since forgotten the poem. However, the anticlimatic approach of the Fiftieth Reunion weirdly disturbs the deep psychic ooze and bottom silt, and disinters many, many memories (not all of them fond...
...those demands, a column of tanks and armored half-tracks clattered across the Lebanese border toward guerrilla strongholds. The Israeli troops encountered little resistance at first and quickly entered six villages near the Hasbani River. The soldiers gave villagers leaflets with a pointed verse from an old Arab poem: "Whoever sows thorns will not harvest grapes and whosoever lights fires is likely to get burned...
...garden party. Discreet ads presented their accustomed celebration of the good life. Rolls-Royces at $31,600. Bracelets at $1,200 each ("Two will give you a beautiful necklace"). The cartoons included the customary chuckle at suburbia. White space set off John Updike's latest four-line poem, "Upon Shaving Off One's Beard." But leading off last week's "Talk of the Town" section, with Eustace Tilley presiding at the top of the page as usual, was the sternest editorial The New Yorker has ever...