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Word: pounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From Pound to the Beats. In the 20th century so far, the devotees of the "second chance" have constituted a remarkable poetic pantheon. The Zeus of that lofty company is himself still alive, though he has long since had his say. Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...Auden and Allen Tate were both, in Auden's word, "colonizers" of the terrain that Pound and Eliot discovered. Theodore Roethke was already a major poet when he died in 1963 at 55. The late Dylan Thomas, with his crosscountry sweep of public performances, helped carry poetry into the floodlit arena. So did the beats. Of them, only Allen Ginsberg retains any influence, perhaps less for his poems than for his relentlessly acted role as the bewhiskered prophet of four-letter words, homosexuality, pot, and general din. Still, in their better moments, the beats, now fitfully imitated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...hitting led to the team's two losses. The freshmen managed only 2 hits off Dartmouth's Bob Seelbach, losing 2-1, and couldn't push a run across against Springfield, falling 2-0. But after each loss, they came back strong to first pound Northeastern, 11-2, and then romped Yale, 8-6. They closed the season by whipping Exeter...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Coach Nat Harris Reviews Stand-out Freshman Nine | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Boston coach Mike Holovak will try Leo, a 170 pound halfback for the Crimson, at flanker. The Everett speedster won all-Ivy and all-East honors last fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leo, Davis Sign With the Patriots | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Davis -- a 235 pound tackle at Harvard -- will try to gain a spot as defensive end for the Patriots. Both he and Leo are rather undersized for the positions which they will try to win in the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leo, Davis Sign With the Patriots | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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