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...refusal, explaining that he regarded "our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust." Among old friends or in class at Harvard, where he taught for many years, he was a vivid, eloquent presence. He could hold forth for hours on any subject, his hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) show the influence of Lowell's mentors, Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. In Imitations (1961), freely licensed translations...
MacDonald left to posterity a course of unkempt terrain, steep-faced bunkers, and mammoth greens that looks like a playground for some bygone race of giants...
Over the years, the unkempt swathe of land also served as a favorite dumping ground for whiskey bottles. Dunn recalled, "One never knew when an explosion shot in a trap would bring out a couple of firewater flasks, or perhaps a bone...
Neither, any more, is Korbut. Now 21, Olga provided the Montreal Games with a haunting figure that may be remembered as vividly as the little girl who won two individual gold medals and one silver at the '72 Olympics in Munich. Her hair unkempt, the red bows on her two pony tails askew, her face at moments haggard beyond middle age, she displayed an overwhelming desire for victory while faced with certain defeat. She ignored Comaneci, refused to watch her rival perform. At one point Korbut burst into tears, at another ostentatiously iced an ailing ankle ("Every athlete always...
Birkdale, in the mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...