Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...converge. If you wait out to the bridge's center, you can watch the harbor sparkling in the sun, listen to the automobiles drone, feel the river and the city all around you. There is no way to describe the splendor of the view. Hart Crane wrote an epic poem about the bridge, and he scarcely even tried to deal with it, writing instead of easier things like the nature of America and the meaning of its history...
Eight months into a public school-teaching career in Boston, Jonathan Kozol was fired in 1965 for reading an angry poem by Black Poet Langston Hughes to his class in the Roxbury ghetto. He detailed his frustrating experiences in Death at an Early Age, and set out to reform U.S. education by helping to found "free" schools: small private schools where parents are "free" to decide what their children should be taught. He concentrated first on Roxbury and later on such cities as New York, Chicago and St. Louis. His target was the ghetto, but the idea caught on with...
...Monkey, who is forever running amuck and terrorizing celestial Establishment figures like the Jade Emperor. As Stanley Karnow notes in his account of the Cultural Revolution, Monkey also happens to be one of Mao Tse-tung's favorite characters. He has even likened himself to Monkey in a poem, wielding the great cudgel of "class struggle" against his enemies and history...
...filled him first with "surprise, then a feeling of being humbled, and then pleasure." Perhaps England's most popular contemporary poet, Betjeman said he had no intention of carrying out the laureate's ceremonial duties. "I would not, for instance, be at all interested in writing a poem about Britain's entry into the economic market, or whatever it is. I want to write about such wonderful things as bees on ivy leaves and the golden light of a beautiful autumn evening...
MAHLER'S FIRST SYMPHONY comprised the second half of the program. Although it is considered to be in keeping with traditional symphonic forms, Mahler himself referred to it as a Symphonic Poem in Two Parts when he conducted its world premiere...