Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Listeners can now decide whether the Frostian voice is apple juice or eagle, or something better than either-a great, plain poet speaking in homely Vermont cadences. Last March, for the National Council of Teachers of English, 76-year-old Robert Frost recorded 40 minutes of his poetry, and last week the results were released in music shops. Of all the poets whose readings have been recorded (e.g., Vachel Lindsay, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot), it is Frost whose voice rings truest, and adds most to the meaning of the poems...
...feel like the Frost fan who once told the poet he never knew how to read Frost until he heard him talk. But as Frost reads Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, The Death of the Hired Man, and 21 others, it becomes plain that, barring shyness, any Vermont hired hand would know how to read the poems right the first time...
Remington, who is free on $7,000 bail, was picking blackberries in Vermont with his two children when he heard the news. Said he happily: "I am very pleased with the result. I am confident that I will be vindicated...
...page report giving their conclusions. The signers were New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, New Jersey's Alexander Smith, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, California's William Knowland, Washington's Harry P. Cain, Maine's Owen Brewster and Vermont's Ralph Flanders. Their findings...
...After years of work on a "pronunciation map" of the U.S., Professor C. K. Thomas of Cornell University announced that he had found at least one continental divide-a line running from Vermont down the Alleghenies, along the Ohio River, then cutting across Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. If a man comes from east of the line, he will say "fahrest"; from the west, "fawrest." The same goes for "ahrange" and "awrange," "Flahrida" and "Flawrida," "hahrrible" and "hawrrible...