Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincoln Neb., he ran up to the mark and heaved his steel-tipped spear into the air. It plunged into the turf shy of the blue flag which marked the world-record distance (258 ft., 2⅛ in.). The thrower, a curly-haired osteopath from Los Angeles named Steve Seymour, 26, had set a new U.S. record...
...Vinson; Viscount Alexander of Tunis, the Governor General of Canada, in the red robe of Oxford; U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (getting his third degree in three days) ; Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Vatican in his cardinal's red; Poet T. S. Eliot; and Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower and Admirals Leahy and Nimitz. The Marine Band burst into Hail to the Chief. Escorted by Princeton...
...General Marshall's proposals are indeed to be supported," said Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, in a statement released yesterday, "even if the total expenditures are $25 billion a year for a period of five years...
Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
Kenneth Koch's verse, as he himself describes it, struts "on a pilgrimage of music." Exhibiting a lively manipulation of language, Koch, however, sometimes plays vaguely with ideas that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...