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...four years the work on the ceiling continued, in conditions best described by Michelangelo himself in an irritated sonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Florentine | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Poetry occupies several pages in this Advocate and most of it is good if not exceptional. David Chandler's Sonnet achieves a poignant, sustained effect from a careful control of visual images and brilliantly worded passages. Neither the cadence, sound, nor form interfere with his feelings on growing up. The poem advances smoothly and communicates directly. Southampton Beach, by Charles Neuhauser, relies more on sense impressions and reflections inspired by them. In places, the impressions seem redundant, yet the transitions to reflection are expertly handled. It is sometimes difficult to know exactly what Neuhauser is saying, however, because he uses...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Advocate | 12/6/1952 | See Source »

...Cambridge Civic Association--non-partisan reform group--still retains its majority of five. MacNamara, like Sonnet, is an independent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacNamara Succeeds Deceased Councilman | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Monthly Santayana's main contribution was in the form of verse, most of it sonnets. In the main they were of a vaguely romantic nature, as epitomized by the following sonnet...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...second volume of the Monthly, issued in the spring of 1886, he wrote an article on "The Ethical Doctrine of Spinoza," and a sonnet, the later an early example of his non-conventional spirituality. It ends...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

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