Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elderly gentleman climbed slowly out of his car, he gazed over the Hamilton College tennis courts, recalling the games he played there as an undergraduate. It was Poet Ezra Pound's first visit to his upstate New York alma mater in 30 years-and his first trip to the U.S. since 1958. One of the foremost poets of the '20s and '30s, Pound made propaganda broadcasts for the Italian government during World War II, and was charged with treason when he was returned to the U.S. He was then declared insane and committed to a mental hospital...
...presence of this face, Edel's quasi-Freudian explanations seem a little glib, and perhaps a little irrelevant. The simpler, curiously old-fashioned dictum of Ezra Pound somehow fits better: more writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence...
...remembered the Dartmouth game a year before where a penalty on an extra point try had cost us the ball game. But that was a different team. Nothing could be denied our darlings. And the daintiest, the sweetest of those darlings did the job. The Big Fella, 240-pound tight end Pete Varney. When Varney moves there's no denying him. He jumped high in the air after the catch with the ball held high. The Yalie had him in his arms, but there wasn't anything he could...
...addition, he placed third in the Easterns twice and second once. In the traditionally western-dominated NCAA's, Lee finished fourth in the 123-pound class in both his junior and senior years. He won the AAU championship...
Loudest and gayest. Beat and pound for the dead. That is it! The New Orleans funeral has always been an occasion for rejoicing as well as sorrow, celebrating a good man's release from pain and toil, and his passing into a happier life. Even the titles of the spirituals they play express a bittersweet longing for the release: "Just a Little While to Stay Here," "My Life Will Be Sweeter Some Day," "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "Bye and Bye, When the Morning Comes...