Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amazing Walt Hewlett won the Heptagonal cross-country meet in record time yesterday in New York, but that's only half the story...
Most of these poems are restrained when compared with Walt Whitman's effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...
Navy or Army will win the Heptagonal cross-country meet in New York today, but Walt Hewlett has a chance to capture the individual title and give Harvard a big slice of the glory...
...Walt's attempt to stone for that showing should provide the main interest for Crimson fans today. Army's Warner has been billed as his chief competition for first place with the three Navy men and Brown's Vic Boog the other possibilities...
Like Warner, Hewlett will suffer from the landscape of the course. Walt's forte is endurance, and that quality is most important when a runner is faced with steep uphill grades. Also, Walt will be carrying the yoke of eight-race winning streak. All the other runners have lost at least once this year...