Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dryden and Diercks controlled the scoreless second period. Two of the Harvard sophomore's instantaneous glove grabs had younger brother Bob Ferguson shaking his head in frustration...
...course easy in such cases to avoid examining the poem behind the shock; here, it is a disservice to the author. In this and his other poems, Bidart exercises a kind of Jewish irony in his diction which recalls Alan Dugan, last year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. This is certainly a refreshing change from the surfeit of pseudo-Lowell which burdens other magazines. Bidart's conversations are pleasantly conversational, and his imagery works primarily to advance the narrative. With deceptive simplicity, he sketches the complex relationship between the poet and his subject in these lines...
Above her in jeans A boy maybe younger worked away. He was good! But he didn't see me staring with blind eyes...
...Astronauts [Feb. 3] have become heroes at a time when heroic figures are sorely needed. Perhaps their greatest legacy will be not their contribution to the space program, though that is considerable, but the inspiration they have given to the youth of America. Because of these young men, many younger people will value their education more and set their goals higher than before...
Rejoice, perhaps. Last week was published a superb volume by a member of our generation. James Tate, 23, is the Yale Younger Poet for 1967, "one of the youngest" to receive that award, as his editors point out. He is unmistakably the best winner in at least five years, since Alan Dugan; and the Yale award itself, I would argue, is the most significant of our domestic awards, incapable of the antiquarianism to which Pulitzer judges seem so prone, and also (under Dudley Witts's lone and brilliant editorship) unthreatened by the coterie pressures and needs to compromise that seem...