Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down to the verge of cannibalism, drew strength by listening to a team of poets as they read on the radio from the works of Pushkin and other writers. "Never before nor ever in the future," said a survivor, "will people listen to poetry as did Leningrad in that winter -- hungry, swollen and hardly living." Today Russians will fill a stadium to hear a poetry reading...
...netmen will travel to Yale today for another big EITA match...Harvard Coach Dave Fish is now 11-1 lifetime against the Bruins...Harvard is now 25-1 at Brown, and 27-0 at home...Palandjian played in his first match since having surgery during the winter...
Harvard invited Calvino, the author of Cosmicomics, If on a winter's night a traveller, and Invisible Cities, to deliver the Norton lectures for 1985-86. Calvino conceived the lectures as memos, terse essays about aspects of prose style that had marked his own fiction and would be important for the literature of the future. Calvino identified six qualities: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. At his death, on the eve of his departure for America, he had written and completed the first five of these lectures...
...Memos will be vital to any student of Calvino because it reveals the careful rationales that motivated his experiments in literature, from the mathematically organized prose-poems of Invisible Cities to the "hypernovel" If on a winter's night a traveller. The connection between Calvino's theory and his own work is also a limitation. As Calvino confesses, his own writing determined his choice of literary qualities for the next millenium...
...cited an incident at the Agassiz School last winter in which "White Power" and anti-Semitic graffitti was found defacing the walls of the school...