Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These poems, written in the last seven years before Roethke died of a heart attack, are beautiful in themselves and provide for him an astonishingly true memorial. All the themes of which he was a master reappear-the greenhouse, the root, the plant and a troubled reaching toward...
Best Reading THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. These poems, written in the last two years before Roethke died of a heart attack, are beautiful in themselves and provide for him an astonishingly true memorial. All the themes of which he was a master reappear: the greenhouse, the root, the plant and a troubled reaching toward...
What sets Southerners apart -what lies at the root of their beliefs and behavior...
Beyond a doubt, St. Louis is back from the brink. In many ways, its people have changed little. They still quaff their suds at the rate of 28 gal. per year per person, root for the Cardinals, thrive on sauerbraten, like to remember that their town produced T. S. Eliot as well as Stan Musial, and pronounce Gravois Street as "Gravoy." Men like Mayor Ray Tucker have brought a new awakening. Says he: "This is a warm, stable community. The people here are conservative and cautious. But I have yet to see them fail to respond to a program...
...Frederick Banting and Charles Best first extracted insulin from sweetbreads. But with the aged accounting for more and more of the U.S. population, and diabetes predominantly a disease of old age, it is estimated that one person in every 80 is a sufferer. Says International Diabetes Federation President Howard Root: "Excluding goiter, diabetes is the most prevalent endocrine disorder...