Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidelines, the Modern Language Association listed only four Broadway shows as "highly recommended" for the 5,000 college teachers attending the organization's annual convention during the vacation. J.B. shared this endorsement with Touch of the Poet, Two for the Seesaw, and West Side Story...
...throughout 1958 the U.S. was helped-inevitably to some, unexpectedly to others-by Communism's continuing demonstration, in the execution of Hungarian Patriots Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter, the persecution of Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak, the mass herding by Mao of millions of Chinese into communes, that Communism is by definition implacably and unchangingly sinister-hence vulnerable...
...country, but he was willing to answer a few questions from the press. What did he think of things in China? Said Fu Tsun tactfully: "Whatever people may think of Mao Tse-tung's policies, I say he is the greatest modern Chinese poet...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, by the great Russian poet who won 1958's Nobel Prize but was forced to refuse it by Big Brotherland...
...bishop, and a third is a Cabinet minister-although she can remember when a politician at her dinner table would have been as unthinkable as an American. She is 80 on the day the book opens, but she is still so beautiful and witty that England's beknighted poet laureate, Sir Percy Rodiner, trots beside her, constantly begging her to marry him. Like everyone else, Sir Percy thinks she is a noblewoman of French birth, but on this day (what can a lady lose at 80?) she puts matters straight...