Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orgel's three poems are echoes of other poets, other places and times, and other-worldly concerns, all turning on well-formed words. The poet's experiments in mood, meter, and word are seemingly unrelated, however, both to each other and to the reader, so that each aspect, while often interesting in itself, never becomes related to a complete poem. Typical of this difficulty is the use of an off-beat second line in what should seemingly be a regular ballad form. The variation is intriguing, but it does not help the overall effect...
...hosts that a Russian Tupolev jet transport "covers the distance from Moscow to London in three and a half hours," and coupled this statement with pointed reminders of the existence of hydrogen bombs and intercontinental guided missiles. Just about then, everyone remembered that it really was still April-which Poet T. S. Eliot long ago called the "cruellest month...
Just a farm boy in Manhattan to get an Albert Einstein Commemorative Award, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, 78, downed some scrambled eggs and deplored the U.S.'s manner of pursuing happiness. Result of the pursuit: "Fat-dripping prosperity." Said the Illinois sage: "When the goal of a country is only happiness and comfort, there is danger. Albert Einstein said as much . . . Listen, 'To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me.' You see, he wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before...
...time. In effect, the athletes are cut off from most of the good college life. They have few dates, seldom become campus leaders, are often looked down on by fellow students as hired freaks. "They're supposed to play ball and that's all," explained a campus poet. Despite these disadvantages, the muscular young men of 'Bama have put up with their lot, accepting it as a fair price to pay for a degree and the quick fame of the sports pages...
...average pay for a full professor outside the professional schools is $8,469. Coach Royal's 27-year-old assistant, three years after his service as a quarterback at the University of California, gets about $7,500. The salary of 47-year-old Pulitzer Prize Poet Theodore Roethke, professor of English...