Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mosbacher, in addition to presenting the trophy named in his honor for the new Ivy League championship, spoke briefly of his experiences with the Weatherly during the Cup races and narrated film sequences of various races against the Australian challenger, Gretel...
...seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry, spare, matter-of-fact. But in the silence that followed any poem Frost spoke, an attentive listener was likely to find himself still a captive of its cadences. "The land was ours before we were the land...
Farmyard Logic. Just as Americans buy Christmas cards of New England churches on village greens they have never seen. Frost spoke to something ancestral (and perhaps vanishing) in the American spirit -the rugged self-reliance of the frontier. Frost seemed a throwback to an earlier time when philosophical and social questions could be handily submitted to farmyard logic. Just because of this, many latter-day critics who set the fashions regarded him slightingly-as a kind of James Whitcomb Riley with muscles. Intellectuals today tend to look on the age of anxiety as an urban affair, a unique...
...February of 1958, however, David Wang, a segregationist who wanted to nominate Ezra Pound for the Presidency, spoke in Lowell Lecture Hall to an unfriendly audience that jeered and booed...
...made our request even before Kennedy spoke," Gunness said. "Our request represents the amount of money we could give away in loans if we had it. I think last year's figure was extremely conservative; this year's is a better picture of the our needs. But we could have reasonably asked for a good deal more...