Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brave to Be a Bee. The first three books in the Modern Masters Books for Children series are lively fantasies on a key theme in children's lives-the scariness of being alone, and the corollary wish to be somebody else. In The Big Green Book, Poet Robert Graves, using only 338 words, tells of little Jack, who lives with his unfriendly aunt and uncle because his parents are dead. One day Jack teaches his keepers a lesson. He finds a green book of magic spells, turns himself into a sly old man, and beats greedy aunt and uncle...
...Poet Phyllis McGinley uses 364 words in The B Book to describe a small Brown Bee named Bumble, who tires of Being a mere Bee. To find something more beautiful he can Be, he Buzzes off "as loud as a Bold Brass Band," only to discover that everything Best in the world begins with a B-Butterflies, Blackbirds, Blue Balloons and the Bicycle of a Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot...
Dreaming up doggerel for a 1912 house organ called the B.V.D.ealer, an anonymous poet unwittingly set up one of the catchiest slogans in U.S. advertising: "Next to Myself I Like B.V.D. Best." The slogan, along with sturdy lines of men's underwear and saucy injunctions such as "Now, Now Cool Off-Get Your B.V.D.s On!", made B.V.D.* an American byword and a titan of the trade. But by World War II, overextension, inefficient mills and changed buying habits had shrunk the onetime giant. Now, under different ownership, B.V.D. is headed up again. Since 1957 its plants have quadrupled...
...Poets' opinions of other poets are often unintelligible to anybody except a poet. But Minor Poet Randall Jarrell is also a witty critic who can sometimes be more eloquent in prose than he is in verse. In the opening address at the National Poetry Festival in Washington (the first in U.S. history), Jarrell surveyed American poetry and the poets of this century and delivered himself of some tart judgments. Excerpts...
...Porter, who died September 19 at the age of 36, left a direct bequest of $1,093,000 to Harvard. She also left her home, once the residence of poet James Russell Lowell, and $35,000 for maintenance of photographic and literary material given to the University by her husband...