Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bush leaguer among modern poets, I'd like to thank TIME for its article on poetry [Mar. 9]. The quotations are wonderful. Your final paragraph implies that poets have deliberately exiled themselves from the human race. If schoolteachers-who give most Americans their one and only experience of poetry-could be persuaded to ignore the 19th century with its artificial diction and clumsy constructions-and give their classes the poetry of today the human race could rejoin the poets...
...Space Sir: Thank you for your excellent coverage of John Glenn's orbital flight [March 2]. I intend to save this issue for my young sons in the hope that they will benefit more by reading it than by learning of it in a history book...
...Thank God, thank Glenn. Thank...
...would like to thank Mr. Nash for his fine defense of the H.A.A. and Frank Lunden. The irrefutable factual approach was really magnificent. Take, for instance, his argument against there being any graft in the H.A.A. Mr. Nash says, "Of course, this point is ridiculous, and I won't consider it further." What logic...
...Nash says that he is surprised "that no one has ever bothered to thank Frank Lunden for the fine job he and his staff are doing . . . ." I now refer to the CRIMSON of Friday, Nov. 13, 1953. This same Mr. Frank Lunden admitted saving blocks of tickets for some of the final clubs. Mr. Lunden said, "A few clubs asked for this accommodation at the beginning of the year and I gave it. I only considered it a slight generosity." And in the CRIMSON of Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1961, with regard to the discomforts suffered by students waiting in line...