Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never an intellectual, Bobby nonetheless read a great deal, particularly after Dallas. While Jack would read simply for delight, Bobby would always choose a writer who had something practical to tell him. Aeschylus, who introduced the tragic hero to literature, was his "favorite poet." On the death of Martin Luther King Jr., he used the lines: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Asked once why he strove so hard, Kennedy again quoted from Aeschylus: "When...
Fact Observed. Communist nations were first to moralize about American violence. Contending that on-camera political assassination had become "a real American way of life," Izvestia declared that "Imperialism carries violence within itself." Russian Poet Evgeny Evtushenko warned: "You're firing at yourself, America. If you go on, you'll really kill yourself." Hanoi had a particular worry, reflecting its view of Kennedy as a man determined to halt the war. "American imperialism," said North Vietnamese Trade Leader Hoang Quog Viet, will now "run berserk on the battlefields of Viet Nam" as a result of the shooting...
Noon, Harvard Graduate Society and Law School Alumni Luncheon, Harkness Quadrangle. Speakers will be William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; and David McCord, poet...
...nothing very radical about their background. They grew up in Syracuse, the sons of a tough Irish railroad worker; their mother a gentle devout Catholic, was known as a soft touch for every passing hobo. Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite order, which principally serves Negro parishes. Also a writer, he has recently been serving as assistant pastor of a Baltimore ghetto...
...willingness to embrace their ideals. The graduates do not speak with a common voice but with common candor, sometimes naively and too glibly, often with a deep faith in the perfectibility of man. In their self-conscious seriousness, they seem to be trying to live up to French-Poet Paul Claudel's contention that "youth is not made for pleasure but for heroism." Some of the demanding and perceptive students who best express the special things that their class wants...