Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretended that he sought only an integration delay to let things quiet down, now told a Little Rock reporter: "I will never open the public schools as integrated institutions." It thus appeared that Little Rock's high-school students might as well settle down to a long schoolless winter. Number who have already applied for transfer to other cities...
When the steely yellow sun sets over the Yard on a late November afternoon, janitors set the radiators to their winter-long knocking and windows slam down tight till spring comes again. Inside their dusty rooms, freshmen dig into whatever they dig into, possibly books, and during the cold nights they dream of silken nymphs on friendly faraway isles...
Choice among the poetry selections are George Starbuck's Poems For a First Year in Boston (dedicated to Jonathan Edwards on the bicentenary of his death): "I. New Year: Arrival from San Francisco," "II. Olympus Having Weathered One More Winter in Boston," "III. Boston: Progress Report." The seven pages of verse are luxurious with alliterations, line and internal rhyme, and rhythmic variety, yet rarely seem splashy. Moreover, Starbuck has successfully used slang to aid rather than preclude intelligibility. The sense of the well sustained poem is a rare combination of sophistication and humanitarianism--a "Wasteland" reconsidered, as it were, featuring...
...Lowell House dramatic group will present the first all-House production of the theatrical season during the Winter Reading Period, director Alan Rinzler '60 announced last night. Except for a single female lead, all people associated with the production will be members of the House...
...genesis of the group came last winter, Rinzler commented. At that time, a group of sophomores worked together on the House Christmas play, and then formed a play-reading society. From play-reading to actual theatrical production was a natural step, he noted...