Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning, the Chapter heard poet John Holmes of Tufts University read his Phi Beta Kappa Poem, "The 11th Commandment," and Chiang Yee of Columbia University deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at the annual Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre...
...wonderful names: Brubeck, Euclid, Castrato. The poetry in the issue is almost uniformly hard to remember. In the best of the lot, Epitaph for a Young Athlete, F. L. Seidel clothes his single small joke in pretentious language. While the only image of David Ferry's The Late Hour Poem is more ludicrous than striking, Nina Castelli's The Coquette concludes, with some truth for the poem, "What use to anyone is it,/My cutting virtue, and my wit?" The rest of the poetry consists of two poems by Robert Johnston. Though he shows he has a neat way with...
...Land Between the Rivers, by Indiana University's Associate Professor Carl Van Buskirk, 49. The story is adapted from a poem by Yale's Novelist-Professor Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men). It tells of a roistering, 19th century innkeeper on the Cumberland River whose pleasure it is to lead travelers to his spring and then kill and rob them. His son escapes, returns in Act II (twelve years later) unrecognized, and allows himself to die under his father's hatchet. Composer Van Buskirk, who composed his score on piano and tape recorder, gave...
With avalanche of musical activities in past week and a half, many overlapping like a fugal stretto, reviewer put in somewhat same position as the Japanese poet given task of composing a seventeen-syllable poem dealing with all of the Eight Views...
...entered a 334-line poem in an open contest of the French Academy, took ninth place. At 16 he won the Academy of Toulouse's first prize, the Golden Lily. At 20 he published his first book of poems, Odes et Poesies Diverses, received a royal pension, and married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher. By then he was one of the most mixed characters that ever walked the earth-a tempestuous rebel, a lover of kings, a bourgeois who could account for every sou he spent, a fanatical moralist, an insatiable sensualist. He came virgin to his marriage...