Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muir will give two more lectures this month on consecutive Wednesday evenings, all based on the general topic of "The Estate of Poetry." He will give a second series of three lectures on the same subject in the spring...
...this setting the newly-elected City Council can hardly afford a leisurely approach to the problem of renovating Cambridge. Fortunately, the elements for an effective program of "urban renewal" are already available. Last spring the City Council, by a vote of 6 to 2, approved a plan that would attack the problems of slum clearance and redevelopment by (1) appointing an assistant to the city manager to supervise the entire urban renewal program; (2) establishing a Housing Authority to inspect buildings throughout the city and decide which ones should be demolished or renovated; and (3) creating a Redevelopment Authority...
Despite the obvious need for haste, the city has as yet implemented only one of the three proposals that it approved last spring. The Council last month officially set up the Redevelopment Authority, but the Urban Renewal Supervisor and the Housing Agency--which logically should have been the first steps in the program--still exist on paper only...
Muir continued his travels, searching for a place to settle down and "habituate myself to the rhythm of life." It was not until he was 35 that he felt "a spring released in my life" and he first began to write poetry. Now he looks back with pleasant reminiscence on the years as a clerk in a bones-to-charcoal factory, as British consul in Prague, as headmaster of a workingmen's school, and as head of a British education program in Czechoslovakia...
Although the Trustees did not comment on whether the catalogue would be changed next spring, students expressed confidence that the booklet's cover will be modified, contrary to the wishes of the University's new president, Nils Wessel...