Word: seamus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many members journey to Cambridge twice a year to participate in the annual spring and Christmas dinners. The most recent dinner Saturday night featured chicken by the Faculty Club, poetry by Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney, and a speech by Helen H. Vendler, professor of English and American literature and language. The annual award for service to the arts was presented to Agnes Morgan, curator of the Fogg Museum for 50 years...
...Masters Robert and Jana Kiely's house in the courtyard of Randolph Hall, the tea rouses itself from cultured calm whenever it tally on a holiday. The St. Patrick's day tea, which has included cases of Guinness and poetry readings by resident Bard Seamus Heaney, gets the biggest kudos. On ordinary Fridays, however, the Adams teas are the first choice for people after cucumber sandwiches and quiet conversation...
...year ago, Seamus Heaney, 45, offered his incandescent version of Mad Sweeney, the legendary Irish king who was turned into a bird-man and condemned to live in the trees for slaying a psalmist. In this new collection of verse, Heaney moves to an even higher and madder style. In the process, Station Island reinforces his reputation as the best poet that Ireland has produced since Yeats...
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heanry's English 186, "Modern Poetry, Tradition and Experiment, and Trumbull Professor of History Donald H. Fleming's History 1341b, "European Intellectual History, 1980 to the Present," as well as several, other classes, are moving to larger rooms because of higher than expected enrollment...
...clause in the charter of the Boylston Professorship gives Heaney "the right to pasture a cow in the Cambridge Common," said Alfred. "But I think Seamus would be arrested if he tried...