Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehabilitated, at least in Goethe's version. He ended up in charge of a kind of symbolic public-works program, draining swamps and reclaiming land from the sea, thus creating new territory where millions might live "not in security, but active and free." To Goethe, the serene humanist poet, it seemed like the perfect task for a character snatched back from the brink of damnation...
...smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times the scandal there already...
...Back. A lifelong Catholic, Author O'Connor wrote exclusively of ultimate things: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, the old Adam and the new life. But she was a poet of region as well as religion, and in this new collection of nine stories, which belong among the finest examples of American Gothic, she celebrates in Southern guises he old violent dialogue of the demonic and the divine...
...Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Dr. Moore is in need of a pick-me-up: his arch-rival for publicity. Dr. Michael E. DeBaken, had his picture on the cover of Time last week); Randall Thompson '20: Howard Nemerov '41 (Phl Beta Kap- pa poet this year); Fred Norris Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, the oldest living emeritus professor, and holder of four honorary degrees from four other universities; Arthur H. Hopkins, Chief Linotypist to the CRIMSON, Emeritus; Paul Codman Cabot '21, retiring Treasurer of Harvard College, who herded the endowment over...
TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Memoirs completed shortly before Dame Edith's death last year that shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and a self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity and imagination...