Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell has won both the Pulitzer and the National Book Awards for his poetry. Recently, he received wide-spread publicity for his opposition to the war in Vietnam. Last summer he declined to attend a White House arts festival, because he said his attendance might be construed as an endorsement of Pres. Johnson's policy. His citation read: "With anguished heart this powerful poet compassionately confronts the tragic complexities of human existence...
...provide some form of voluntary training, the Harvard Regiment was organized. The Regiment, which attracted nation-wide attention, gave its 1200 student members training in military tactics, taught them how to use rifles and expected them to attend one lecture a week in military science. In March, 1916, 52 students organized an zero corps to train Harvard men as aviators to fight with the United States Army in case...
...University-wide poll, held soon after, refuted the pacifists. In January of 1917, less than three months before the United States entered the war, 72 per cent of the students voted for conscription. The CRIMSON commented: "Those men who have declared both formally and informally that Harvard is against universal training are shown to have spoken with no cause. The views of a University may not be circumscribed by the desires of any partisan of peace, however lofty his ideals or altruistic his hopes...
...College-wide straw ballot gave Woodrow Wilson 920 votes, Theodore Roosevelt 739 and President Taft 732. On election night students gathered in which received them from a Naval Broadcasting station...
...dank day in February 1963, a pretty young mother of two children was found in a London flat with her head in the oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...