Word: robinsons
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This June 4th, Harvard celebrated its 347th Commencement, conferring 6,236 degrees to graduates of the University's 10 schools. As students and family gathered in Tercentenary Theatre--first for morning exercises and later for U.N. Ambassador for Human Rights Mary Robinson's afternoon address--jollity and festivity filled the air. With school banners flapping in the blustery winds, the University reveled as graduates received their degrees and said good-bye to the Harvard community...
...helps to explain the rise of an audience for modernist writing. But it was an audience chiefly of fiction readers. Fiction had claimed "real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from 1897 on, Edwin Arlington Robinson had been writing his grim, intelligent poetry of American failures (Miniver Cheevy among them), he was not a popular American poet: Joyce Kilmer and Edgar Guest were the poets who sold...
...roll at the time of Elvis Presley's pre-eminence, no doubt hoping to turn back the Mongols. It didn't quite work, and in efforts to maintain his commercial viability, Sinatra would eventually record Presley's hit Love Me Tender as well as works by Paul Simon (Mrs. Robinson), George Harrison (Something) and Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now). The results were often awkward--this is the Sinatra people like me used to make fun of. But listen with more knowing ears: when Sinatra sings "You stick around, Jack, it might show" on Something, you get the feeling not that...
...Robinson received a masters of law from HarvardLaw School in 1968 and a year later became theyoungest professor of law in the history ofTrinity College in Dublin...
...stalwart champion of human rights and women'sequality, Robinson currently serves as UnitedNations High Commissioner for Human Rights...