Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expenses. Unless he is a millionaire many times over, the average member of Congress (annual salary: $30,000) simply cannot afford, on his own, the expense of getting elected or re-elected these days. Things have almost reached the point indicated by England's turn-of-the-century poet laureate, Alfred Austin, who wrote...
...only it attracted more tourists. Indira selected an interesting man from an interesting state for the job. New Tourism Minister Karan Singh, 36, is the Maharajah of Kashmir and, as such, is the first Indian prince ever to serve in a Cabinet. His talents as a Sanskrit scholar, poet and pianist attracted Indira's attention. The question now is whether he can help India project an image that lures nore tourists-and hard currency-to the country...
Gone with the Wet Wash. One of the most successful detectors, Atlanta Insurance Agent Tom Dickey (brother of National Book Award Poet James Dickey), has turned up so many Civil War projectiles over the years (nine tons of them) that he stashes many in his basement for fear the upper floors will collapse if he displays them. He sighs that "the centennial ruined us" and says flatly that "the best finds are made by novices on ground that has already been beat flat." Possibly. But farmers who own land that includes Civil War ground not yet beat flat are fully...
...someone totally outside Christianity. "The Luthers today are not in the established church," he argues. Novak suggests that the impulse for reformation today is in the New Left. Lutheran Liturgist Edgar S. Brown agrees that should a new Luther materialize, he would most likely turn up as "a novelist, poet or dramatist"-someone with the gift of words that Luther had "to get at men's minds and hearts and grab them...
...distaste for force in the Confucian order is profound, one indication being the low social status of the soldier. Men who know how to employ ruse, the traditional weapon of the weak against the strong, are particularly admired. A famous Chinese story describes how a poet wrote a novel considered dangerous by the Emperor and was summoned to court to be punished; he bribed the boatman to travel as slowly as possible, and by the time he arrived, he had written a new novel so fantastic that the Emperor decided he must be insane and spared his life. To many...