Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably best known as the wry gentleman who every few months came calling on Johnny Carson. Stewart would uncoil himself in the Tonight Show guest seat, tell one of his hilariously laborious anecdotes, perhaps read one of the verses that, in 1989, made him a best-selling poet. One bit of doggerel elegized his pet golden retriever: "And now he's dead./ And there are nights when I think I feel him/ Climb upon our bed and lie between us,/ And I pat his head./ And there are nights when I think/ I feel that stare/ And I reach...
...idea of America as the New World (we are hoary with youth), Stewart was, in the roles that most gripped the public, a kind of child-man, a Harry Langdon with sex appeal. Even the sexiness brought out a mothering instinct in women. He was their poet, who had to be protected from insensitive brutes...
...kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. "I don't think the MLA is the evil empire," says Alter, who maintains membership in both groups. "It's an umbrella organization. But academic people are conformist. With 30,000 people under one big top, you have a lot of conformism...
Though never as visible as Coretta Scott King, Shabazz, 61, is likewise revered as the widow of a martyred black leader. As news of her condition spread last week, King and the poet Maya Angelou rushed to her hospital room. Jesse Jackson called from London. President Clinton faxed a message. But because of her age and the extent of her burns, doctors were pessimistic about her chances for survival...
HOSPITALIZED. BOB DYLAN, 56, folk-rock's seminal poet; for a potentially fatal fungal infection, histoplasmosis...