Word: tates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan cities-Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Muskegon, West Michigan City and Pontiac, where a state assemblyman, protecting the local grocery that he had owned for years, shot a 17-year-old Negro looter to death. White and Negro vandals burned and looted in Louisville. Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate declared a state of limited emergency as rock-throwing Negro teen-agers pelted police prowl cars. A dozen youths looted a downtown Miami pawnshop and ran off with 20 rifles, leaving other merchandise untouched. Some 200 Negroes in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., smashed downtown store windows. In Arizona, 1,500 National Guard...
...alumni of the medical school were treated to a series of discussions on such topics as the new penicillin and the cellular aspects of the immunization mechanism. Vanderbilt A.B.s, on the other hand, were invited to a lecture on the future of the liberal arts college by Poet Allen Tate, class...
Heady Summer. Tennessee in the '30s was the center of a poetic renaissance. Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom, fathers of the "New Criticism," had done much to impose form and coherence on the gaseous and self-indulgent free-verse fashion of the time. Thus Lowell at 20 found himself at a reform school-poetic reform. When he arrived "ardent and eccentric...
...Tates' house in Monteagle, near Chattanooga, he was told there was no room. "You would have to camp on the lawn," said Mrs. Tate, who was already busy with a novel, her family, three guests and the cooking. Lowell bought a pup tent at Sears, Roebuck, pitched it on the lawn, moved in, and slept there for two months...
...heavy burden of learning and the rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...