Word: tates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largeness of impulse--Lowell's ambition to respond to so many happenings--results in uneven inspiration. Some, the beautiful Father and Sons poem for Alan Tate, the Writers series, Caracas, some of the Dream poems, others--are among Lowell's most brilliant. The three poems to R.F.K. seem low-key and common at first-then resonant and vital. The Mexico series on the whole is mediocre--although it has brilliant lines and cadences. Lowell's use of the sonnet to frame his vision emphasizes the uneven inspiration. A few poems are written long to fulfill the form and must take...
...first week. What also came next was bomb threats and scalpers who sold $2.50 tickets for $10. The least predictable assault came from the Black Mothers for Liberty, a militant group who objected to the film's reference to Martin Luther King. Mayor James Tate capped the controversy by knocking the audience. "Many of the people who are standing in line," he fumed, "are degenerates." Actually, some are Pinkerton men scanning the ID cards of 17-year-olds, barred by the movie's X rating...
...hospital steward, George Henry Haydon, was an amateur artist and encouraged Dadd further. Dadd dedicated The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke to Haydon, gave it to him before he died at the age of 67 in 1886. The late poet Siegfried Sassoon, who gave it to London's Tate Gallery in 1963, inherited it indirectly from Haydon...
...judges claimed that they have inherent powers, as an independent branch of the government, to fix the size and compensation of their staff. Both the tate's laws and its constitution, said he judges, assure the operation of the courts against indifference by the county legislature. Only if it could be proved that their hiring practice was "arbitrary or capricious," they said, could the county deny them funds...
While organizations like Barr's and Tate's maintain a tenuous hold on power, the party's real strength has been slipping away. In the past six years, the Democrats have lost two gubernatorial elections and one U.S. Senate contest. While the Republicans have been fielding attractive candidates like William Scranton. Hugh Scott and Raymond Shafer, and backing them with unite campaigns, the Democrats have been wasting their energies in destructive primary contests...