Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousand, six hundred and twenty-three will graduate from the College, up slightly from last year's 1571, according to Associate Registrar Thurston A. Smith...
...Lori E. Smith '92-'94 was associate editorial chair of The Crimson. She wants to thank Jessica Marshall for reminding her why she fell in love with history in the first place...
...first lyric at the age of six, or how she struck out on her own after kindergarten, or how she spent her adolescence in a suburban wasteland, misunderstood by her peers. Though she's a poet and, she admits, most poets come from such dramatic beginnings, Tracy K. Smith '94 never enjoyed these fruits of misery...
...hasn't made a difference. Unlike the work of many of her peers, Smith's poems seem more interested in art than in the artist, more curious about exploring details than about dissecting political issues or laying the poet's life on the page. Her life follows a similar pattern: She comes across as affable, always smiling, quiet, but her friends claim that her still waters not only run deep, but aren't that still to begin with. "She's not shy," says one. "She's crazy, actually...
...craziness, the shyness, the affability--all the attention amuses and embarrasses Smith. She's modest--she says she's still learning to write poetry, and she wants to get to know the "something that doesn't want its photograph taken." She's afraid of sounding pretentious. She's afraid of coming on too strong. She is shy, whether she's crazy or not, and she paints herself as an ordinary kid, leading an ordinary life, content to spend most of her time alone. For this poet from the suburbs of America, it's the thinking that matters, not the biography...