Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abbreviated pattern has helped traffic flows around Harvard, but critics feel that cars, even if they move faster for awhile, still get caught in the same old bottleneck in Harvard Square. Complaining letters flow in the Cambridge Chronicle. Even poets take their crack at Rudolph. In April, a poem by a senior citizen and longtime Cantabrigian" appeared in the Chronicle. In this poem Paul Revere, on a second ride, got lost in the Traffic Director's latest pattern. Rudolph was moved to respond in kind, and an exchange of poems began in the paper. The Traffic Director's latest work...
...surprising harmonies. Threaded through them all are simple melodies that occasionally evoke country music or other sounds of his Southwest background (Wichita Lineman features the wow-wow-wow sound of the prairie wind whipping through electrical wires). "A pop song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what I'm talking about or not." Typical of his personal and provocative imagery is Mac Arthur Park, from a briskly selling album that he has composed for Actor Richard Harris...
With the exception of a few typographical and technical oversights--especially damaging to the effect of Bidart's poem and the Borges parody--Bogus' small-review format is clean and dignified, putting an attractive face on an impressive first effort that deserves to be continued and expanded...
Nonsense Protein? Increasingly, researchers at the conference tended to make a sharp distinction between long-and short-term memory-in other words, the difference between a man's ability to remember a poem learned in grammar school and his inability, for the life of him, to remember the name of the fellow he met at lunch yesterday. Sweden's Dr. Hydén felt that the creation of protein (as in pigeons, rats and goldfish) is essential to man's formation of long-term memories. Human brain cells, said Hydén, seldom divide and replace themselves...
...evening I walk into a room where there is a poetry reading. I don't want to be rude so I stay. A med student who looks like Dr. Kildare reads a poem entitled "Ode to Mickey Mantle's Five-hundredth...