Word: vachel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright-looking students, flocking around Lindsay as if his first name were Vachel, were the most obvious departure from the usual hack-packed New York mayoralty-campaign headquarters. But, beyond that, there was a notable shortage of G.O.P. professionals, big or little. To blur his party markings, Lindsay had asked all Republicans of national consequence to stay away. "I don't need officialdom to build me up," he said. "I don't think the public will vote for me just because a distinguished person says they should...
...from Jean's book is the fact that a poet's life is infinitely more dangerous than that of a steeple jack. Of her poet friends, nearly a dozen killed themselves one way or another. Elfin Elinor Wylie did it by burning the candle at both ends; Vachel (The Congo) Lindsay made a more gruesome exit by drinking a bottle of Lysol...
...first prizes of $35 each were awarded to H. Todd Cobey '65, who recited "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" by Vachel Lindsay, and to Daniel N. Freudenberger '66, who recited excerpts from "The Zoo Story" by Edward Albee...
...always been able to look beyond winter to spring, beyond death to continuing life. There is in the nation a resiliency and a sense of renewal, the sort of thing that Poet Vachel Lindsay meant when he wrote...
...Vachel Lindsay: He had "the innocent, desperate eccentricity of the artist in a world which had no room for, no patience with, artists . . . Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim ... it is hard to remember how precariously hand to mouth his existence...