Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English, boomed out his small talk, and the interpreter translated softly. Ike small-talked back as they headed for the escalator. He recalled his visit to Russia after V-E day in 1945. "We visited the Leningrad trenches, and then we visited the house of a very famous Russian poet -but I forgot his name." "Pushkin?" offered the interpreter. "Yes, Pushkin," recalled Ike. The President was guided to the exhibit's centerpiece, a display of the shiny models of the three Russian Sputniks and a replica of the Lunik nose cone. "Just think of the millions and millions...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish's uneven but exciting verse drama around the tribulations of a modern...
...pects (chest muscles). There he spies the girl of his dreams-but alas, she loves a weight lifter. Can the underpected salesman sunder this pair? Sure he can, if he will only assert his baritoned intelligence against the rival falsetto. A falsetto, of course, is-in the definition of Poet-Punster Mark Van Doren-a guy with a false set o' values...
...phonograph played Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, Crucifixion, and a lithe girl danced an "interpretation" to the cool-cat words: "He was a kind of carpenter from a square-type place like Galilee . . . who said the cat who really laid it on us all was his Dad ..." Another amateur actor played the role of Christ crucified: "I was framed . . . Maybe that lawyer Judas can swing it. Otherwise I've had it ... The Roman fuzz bugged me all night. They didn't like my sandals and beard...
Alfred, who teaches the General Education course "Crisis and the Individual," is a specialist in medieval English. Also a poet and playwrght, his verse tragedy "Hogan's Goat" will be published soon...