Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rock Garden, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In this transparently autobiographical novel, the great Greek poet-novelist describes a 1936 trip to the Orient, where he saw with depression but grudging admiration "a new human type" emerging against the ancient beauties, as the Japanese girded...
...Bearded Beatnik Poet Allen (Howl) Ginsberg came briefly to rest in South Viet Nam, to investigate the crisis between the government and the rebellious Buddhists (see South Viet Nam). The saffron-robed monks at first thought Ginsberg either a "spy or madman" but after attending a poetry reading one enthusiastic monk told him: "You are an enlightened one. Maybe all the people in the world are asleep except you. You are awake." Awakened, Ginsberg almost immediately left South Viet Nam, commenting, "This place depresses me." >Guinea's President Sekou Toure, on the way home from the Pan-African summit...
...follows: the University Marshal, the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, the President and Fellows of the University, the Overseers, the Governor and his military staff, deans of the departments, honorary degree candidates, professors, other faculty members and officers of the University, former professors, Phi Beta Kappa orator and poet, trustees of the Hopkins Fund, preachers to the University, local ministers, United Ministry Members, college presidents, State Commissioner of Education, U.S. Congressmen, Armed Forces officers, State Supreme Court judges, Court of Appeals judges, Lieutenant Governor, president of Associated Harvard Clubs, former honorary recipients, representatives of the mayors of Boston...
...Beta Kappa literary exercises in Sanders Theatre. Orator, J. Russell Wiggins of the Washington Post and Times Herald; Poet, John...
What saddened Kazantzakis' life, however, strengthened his art. His experiences steeled his poet's nerves, shaped the hard philosophy of his later masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Last Temptation of Christ. Life is ceaseless combat, Kazantzakis learned, and the poet's fight is the fiercest of all: to translate experience into words, to "transform flesh into spirit...