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Word: poems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets swarmed with mobs of children, eagerly accepting Life Savers from U.S. advisers and schoolbooks distributed by the province chief. With the Khanh takeover, things brightened further; the Viet Cong monument has been repainted as a government monument, and walls have been plastered with propaganda slogans, including a poem: "I am a girl of the countryside. If you follow the Viet Cong, I will never love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: To Clear & to Hold | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...fully believable as the charming 16 year old girl, though occasionally a more mature voice and graceful style would have suited her role. As for the young lad (Dean Stolber), he is "grown up and stable and willing to conform"; but he is in love and life is a poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fantasticks | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...most ambitions poem in the Lion Rampant is Kevin Lewis' "March, Returned From Home," which describes the thoughts and recollections of a college student who is walking through a wooded area, the scene of many childhood adventures. Lewis' murky style makes it difficult for the reader to have any sort of response to the poem without "studying...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Lion Rampant | 2/29/1964 | See Source »

Seventy-four lines of this is too much. The central image of the poem is an old sewage pipe through which he and his childhood companions once crawled. If Lewis had pared down the poem to focus on this symbol and eliminated the endless verbiage about cold snow, matted leaves, flat grasses, maple hedges, gray stems, tattered bark, and yellow sun, "March, Returned From Home" could have been a good poem. As it stands, it is sprawling, chaotic, and almost incomprehensible...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Lion Rampant | 2/29/1964 | See Source »

...first issue will be financed largely with the proceeds of a party to be held tomorrow in Leverett House Old Library. It will include a seven-page poem by James Dickey, and a short novel by Clive Miller '59, entitled. The Right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New 'Grolier Review' To Appear in Spring | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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