Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office window. Puttering through a collection of weekend mail, tattered ticket stubs and dog-eared programs, he caught sight of an unfamiliar sheet of stationery and did a double take. Someone had slipped the Loeb an anonymous note. The letterhead, The Yale Dramatic Society. The message, a poem...
While the verse itself was decidedly third-rate, the warning came through clearly enough. Robert deButts, president of the Yale Dramat, later denied responsibility for this vaguely literary attempt, although he conceded the poem was the handiwork of a Dramat member. He also conceded the verse's sentiment was close...
...client William Milligan [Oct. 23] informs me that it was Adelena, not Tommy, who wrote down the quoted poem, and that it was not an original. The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin for an Elton John album Madman Across the Water. At no time did my client claim originality for the quote. Your reporter and, I must admit, I assumed that it was original, rather than a reflection of a song in a very disturbed young man's mind...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, under guest conductor Andrew Davis, performs two American works and a Strauss tone-poem tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Tuesday at Symphony Hall. Davis, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, will conduct the scherzo "Over the Pavements" by Charles Ives, "Before the Butterfly" by Morton Subotnick and "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss. The concerts are at 8 pm except for tomorrow's, which...
...Arthur was in control, questioning the attorney closely about what had happened and how the other personalities could be protected. Said Schweickart: "The stress of jail and confinement was too much." Psychiatrist Wilbur thinks the prognosis for Milligan is doubtful. So does Milligan. His Tommy personality turned out this poem: / am sorry I took your time/ I am the poem that doesn 't rhyme/ So just turn back the page/ I'll waste away/ I'll waste away...