Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diaphragm instead of my vocal cords, and I'm happy to be free to give Capitalism hell." Producer David Belasco tried to convince her that she should become an actress, Novelist Theodore Dreiser called her the "East Side Joan of Arc," and the famed Wobbly poet, Joe Hill, dedicated The Rebel Girl to her during the years when she raced from coast to coast battling beside strikers in the mines of the West and the textile mills of the East...
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginning grow," wrote Dryden. In the Manhattan cabaret called Second City, Satirist Severn Darden, posing as a mad Germanic art professor, explains in effect what the poet meant...
...Louis Browns packed up and moved East. Browns or Orioles, they were still the worst team in baseball, but Baltimore greeted them like champs. ON TO THE PENNANT, whooped the normally staid Morning Sun, and a monumental welcoming parade tied up traffic for hours. Baltimore Poet Laureate Ogden Nash dashed off a ditty to celebrate the frabjous...
...read poetry favored by President Kennedy and excerpts from some of his most memorable speeches. March said beforehand that Kennedy "would have deplored sadness in any of us"; yet few could check tears as he recited Alan Seeger's / Have a Rendezvous with Death. Seeger, a young American poet, was killed in World War I. Whispered Jackie to the audience: "Thank all of you for coming-all of you who helped President Kennedy in 1960. May his light always shine in all parts of the world...
Since William the Conqueror's day, murder most foul has taken the lives of some half-dozen English kings. But priest and poet always agreed that heaven trembled at such impious acts, for even the most pitiless tyrant ruled by divine right. Oliver Cromwell changed all that. He had King Charles I slain in broad daylight, and explained that God willed it so; he made regicide and revolution fashionable...