Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found, at his own expense, a colony on the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico. Oñate set out for his new domain leading an army of 400 Spanish settlers and soldiers, 83 wagons and carts, 7,000 head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan and a party of adventurers pressed up the Rio Grande. In July 1598 they reached two Indian pueblos, Yuque and Yunque, on opposite sides...
...business from hod carrier to director, is a fellow of All Souls, Oxford (and married to an American, Hellen Guggenheimer). Macmillan emphasized the government's aim to expand Britain's health services by bringing into his Cabinet Health Minister Enoch Powell, 49, a blunt, brilliant scholar and poet who was a full professor of Greek at 24, a wartime brigadier...
...marriage to the late Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas was a never-ending hurricane of flying crockery, and in Leftover Life to Kill, her chronicle of that 17-year clash of egos, Caitlin Thomas, 47, sometimes wondered how she and the tosspot genius avoided killing each other. Now, in a "Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter" in Harper's, irascible, Celtic-tongued Caitlin has some heartfelt advice for her 18-year-old: "Stick, my child, for goodness' sake, to creating babies, washing nappies, and crooning lullabies. A woman's place, as Dylan never ceased to tell...
...Fund attained its all-time high as David McCord '21 retires as executive director, after serving with the Fund since its founding in 1925. McCord is one of the country's best known alumni officials, and doubles as a poet and essayist...
...attention in the Mansion House, seat of London's square-mile ancient center, as 360 dignitaries gathered for the opening of the first City of London festival. Diamond tiaras twinkled in the well-Established audience on hand to see an "entertainment" on the City's history by Poet John Betjeman, assisted by Sir John Gielgud and 74-year-old Comedian Randolph Sutton. Toward the end, Sutton broke out in an old, faintly scabrous music-hall ditty, and invited the audience to sing along. High sheriffs shuffled, bankers balked, field marshals fidgeted. Then a strong, clear voice rose from...