Word: tates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Allen Tate, the later Yeats, and Donoghue "reject the notion that the poet should have anything to do with politics," a Swedish poet in the audience reminded the panelists that "in Russia political reference must be vague; therefore the writers have this responsibility" of social comment...
...crucial issue, Donoghue asserted, is to whom or to what is the poet responsible? Allen Tate's answer, he said, is that the poet "is responsible to his language...
...fading poet-critic who remembers peevishly the time when his picture appeared on the dust jacket of New Critics, 1944. There is Holly Levine, who teaches creative writing but keeps a copy of Playboy hidden under the Kenyan Reviews. Composing a review: "He hissed softly, Trilling . . . Leavis . . . Ransom . . . Tate . . . Kazin . . . Chase . . .' and saw them, the Fathers, as though from a vast amphitheater, smiling at him, and he smiled at them." Finally, there is Morroe Ri-off, not quite "in" because he is an organizer and speechwriter for a Jewish fund-raising organization. (By no co incidence, Author Markfield...
Most of the paintings are borrowed from the National Gallery and the Tate, although the high-quality copies in the state dining room are No. 10's own. The effect is tasteful, pleasing and unadventuresome. And perhaps it was the great English art theoretician John Ruskin who gave a clue why No. 10 should never be much altered. He wrote, of any ancient building: "Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown...
...Tate: If I know I can depend on all the rich people in the U.S. to support me in my time of need, why should I do anything...