Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January, 1961, President Kennedy invited Frost to read a poem at his inauguration. Facing a blinding sun, Frost was unable to read the script he had prepared and recited instead "The Gift Outright," a poem he wrote 20 years...
Evtushenko's display of courage did not last long. Two weeks after the Lenin Hills meeting, the party's ideological boss, Leonid Ilyichev, called in the poet and a number of other young intellectuals for an attitude talk. Ilyichev was especially angry over Evtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which condemned Soviet anti-Semitism and which had just been enthusiastically received in a new symphonic setting by Composer Dmitry Shostakovich. Cultural commissars quickly canceled further performances of the symphony. As for the poem, said Ilyichev, it should be changed to include an attack on West Germany. After...
Though the Pavilion was devoted to showing modern science, it looked as if it could have been the setting from a poem by Coleridge. From any angle it cast a spell. It had reflecting pools, stage-set lighting, delicate bridges, six buildings decorated with Gothic tracery. Inside, it subtly lured visitors along, stopped them just where the designer intended that they should pause and look. Probably no building put up in 1962 caused such a world of comment or brought into action so many cameras. Professional critics found dreadful flaws, but to almost everyone else the U.S. Science Pavilion, that...
...Revenge. Nietzsche was soon tamed. Lou took him on soulful walks through the woods, discussing the great themes of life; but whenever Nietzsche proposed an earthier relationship, Lou balked. She soon left him for the more placid Ree; the embittered Nietzsche, so Peters says, wrote his prose-poem Thus Spake Zarathustra to express his resentment of all womankind. Ree, however, fared no better than Nietzsche. For five years he lived with Lou as "brother and sister" and was known among his friends as Lou's "maid of honor." Nothing better expressed the relationship of the two philosophers...
President Pusey solemnly resigns his office to become Master of the new co-educational House. He issues the following poem...