Word: poetic
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There was nothing pretty or poetic about the win. Harvard simply turned the tables on the Big Red, from its aggressive, confident play on the ice to the chicken, fish, taunts and tennis balls that came from the stands. From Greg Britz' goal just 47 seconds into the game onward, it was all Harvard, and after beating Cornell only once in the last seven years, the Crimson now has done it twice in one month...
...applaud your Essay, "The Poetic License to Kill" [Feb. 1], but it should have more strongly condemned Norman Mailer's oracular pronouncement that "culture is worth a little risk." There are people who are blind to moral values-just as there are those who are oblivious to aesthetic ones, but both originate from the idea that a human life is important because it cannot be traded for anything...
...poetic license that enabled psychiatrists to save Ezra Pound, on a plea of insanity, from the firing squad...
...journalism and intellectual freewheeling to blast Chicago on nearly every count--the courts, the jails, the neighborhoods--everything. Piling on top of it all Hegel. Vico and Rilke don't make it any more palatable. If the trial did not convince them, the articles did: Albert Corde is a poetic jackass...
...seem still to be the only solution." Apparently his words fell on deaf ears, for only three weeks later he was at it again, this time his rage triggered by a letter from a doctor who said college men should keep their feet dry or risk illness. In a poetic temper, he wrote. "The Crimson has alluded before to the specific instance of the walk between the Library and the Union, which--with other paths--one might suppose in their present condition to be licensed highways to the Stillman Infirmary...