Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru's modern India would like to change Shakta customs. The government has sent community development officers into the villages to instruct the Shaktas in modern farming and hygiene and to teach them to read and write. The government men noted that the ancient stone pillars embedded in stone rings -phallic symbols worshiped by the Shaktas-were gathering moss in some villages, and the officials concluded confidently that the old practices were...
...Untermeyer was in a gloomy mood about the prospects for U.S. poets of the present. "There are only one or two poets, Robert Frost and possibly Ogden Nash, who are making a living out of it," Untermeyer complained to Columnist Art Buchwald. "The rest of us have to teach, write books, compose anthologies ... A poet can't even starve in a garret these days because garrets now are too expensive . . . There is less hospitality for a poet than there ever has been before. The mediums for entertainment are so much faster ... I think there will be fewer poets...
Especially in folk music an artist must be judged on the merits of his performance. In your editorial you stated that "Seeger himself, during his performance, noted that his were 'propaganda songs'." Rather, Seeger emphasized the anyone can write folk songs, but the songs that last must have something to say (his concert included a Polynesian wedding song, some South African work songs, and an American union song). He spoke of his trips around the country, noting that every different racial and cultural group has "something to say." If an acquaintance with customs and beliefs of the people of American...
...massive retaliation,' 'liberation,' 'positive loyalty,' 'agonizing reappraisal' and 'united action.' It was the press that was pointing to the effects of Senator McCarthy's tactics on the Administration's authority . . . "Have Walter Lippmann, or Joseph Alsop, who write for a syndicate owned by a Republican newspaper, commented on this Administration's foreign policy with 'tender solicitude'? Has the New York Times or the New York Herald Tribune or the Washington Post and Times Herald, all of whom supported the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Communism is stronger than the case for the free way of life." For liberty and the "dignity of man," thought Davenport, are meaningless unless sanctioned by God. All of this has been said before by others, but rarely so well or with the eloquence of a poet who could write...