Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most effective poetry in this collection is in "To the Immaculate Virgin, on a Winter Night." Though contemptuous in nature, it is a clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when...
...exception. Less than 48 hours before he was to lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech en route; he put the finishing touches to it only a few minutes before Parliament opened...
Free beer, and occasional coke, and opportunities to enroll in the College's only school for journalism will be dispensed in lavish quantities at 7:30 p.m. tonight when all four boards of the CRIMSON open their winter competitions at 34 Plympton Street...
Football can certainly do a lot for public relations--in fact, the football team in the fall and Valpey in the winter are Harvard's two biggest ambassadors. But football cannot do much for public relations unless we either win or make an excellent losing showing...
Although basketball is the major winter sport, there will also be Yard boxing, swimming, wrestling, and fencing tournaments in February and March. The winners will receive no medals, but they will add points to their dormitories all-year scores...