Word: warrens
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...least one poet was inclined to disagree. "When I was growing up, a title would not have affected me at all," says Robert Penn Warren, 80, who last week became the nation's first poet laureate. "I started writing because it was what I wanted to do. I didn't need encouragement." In fact, Warren (who was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1944-45) suggested he would not have accepted the honorific if it had carried the same sort of trappings as in Britain, where in 1668 John Dryden became the first poet laureate. "The idea...
...Warren will be receiving a bit more than the annual stipend of (pounds)100 and a case of wine that goes to his English counterpart (currently Poet Ted Hughes). The U.S. job pays $36,000, and an additional $10,000 has been appropriated for a poetry conference at which the poet laureate may read, if he wants to. He will not hold the title for life, but only until his term as | consultant to the Library is over. And he will not be expected to produce occasional verse or commemorative odes at anyone's behest. "I would not think...
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor voted to hear arguments in the case, but four votes are needed to grant such review...
Boston College law student and Watertown Democratic committee Chairman Warren Tolman officially launched his campaign to succeed departing State Sen. George Bachrach on Sunday...
Appearing as a guest at a meeting of TIME's Board of Economists last week, New Hampshire Republican Warren Rudman, one of the Senate sponsors of the bill, explained why. To meet the law's deficit targets ($144 billion for fiscal 1987, which begins Oct. 1, vs. an expected $202.8 billion this fiscal year), Congress by Aug. 15 would still have to calculate equal percentage cuts in the 50% or so of all federal spending that is not exempt. If a Supreme Court decision prevents those cuts from being put into effect automatically, they would have to be embodied...