Word: poses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final importance of Mr. Gunn's work lies in what it preserves from the little that is left to a self-parodying culture and an exploited language. The artistic temperament revealed by the best of these poems is that of a compassionate Webster, a Byron without pose. My Sad Captains should be bought by anyone who understands and cares about the rawest, oldest, and bravest tradition of them...
...swing too far in the other direction as well. Master Charles Taylor took a calculated risk in inviting Miss Winters, since the visit could have turned into just another Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year affair, with hordes of photographers following Miss Winters around as she struck one photogenic pose after another. And Miss Winters' lecture Tuesday night could have taken the form of a long Louella Parsons article. If the exchange of views is to be a success, the visitor must learn from Harvard, too. Visitors should not feel obligated to adopt a scholastic approach, but they must treat...
...domain." The portrait took a week of intensive sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
...players left still pose a problem for any opponent, especially at the Palestra. In the backcourt the Quakers start Sid Amira, who has been playing far below the standard that earned him All-Ivy mention last season, and Jeff Sturm. Up front are Jim Doherty, Bob Purdy and John Wideman, who at 6 ft., 1 in. is still the best rebounder on the team. Harvard will counter with Borchard, Lynch, Gene Augustine, Joe Deering, and either Danner or Bob Inman...
...political ambitions. In 1962, while trying to balance the nation's budget, he can only view the huge farm burden as offensive. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, a former Governor of Minnesota, had little exposure to farms and farmers, says: "When I became Secretary of Agriculture, I did not pose as a farm expert. I expressed a sincere desire to learn." A chief author of the Kennedy Administration program was in fact ex-Professor Willard Cochrane, Freeman's director of agricultural economics, former member of the University of Minnesota faculty, and a farm brain-truster under the Roosevelt...