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...would be something almost chilling, if it weren't so cheering, about the ease with which, at 20, he negotiated the considerable challenges of rhyme and meter he set for himself. Of course he belonged to a generation of surpassing formal accomplishment. That fertile decade of his birth-the 1920s-also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet ever (with the possible exception of Marianne Moore), he conveyed an infectious, exuberant joy in sheer...
...repeated pledges of federal leaders and a blizzard of state-friendly legislation suggested something larger. Some thought they saw American government decentralizing itself, heading back to either the Jeffersonian ideals of local governance and part-time legislators (if you are a fan) or the social miseries of the 1920s and pollution of the 1970s (if you are not). Said Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster: ``This is the opening debate over the radical Republican agenda.'' Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici's analysis was simultaneously more sanguine and more portentous: it might mark a change in ``how we define the role...
Spero gleans her own images from a vast array of time periods and cultures, ranging from Egyptian figures to prehistoric African wall-drawings to images of women from the 1920s. A photograph or an outline of an image is then transferred to a rubber stencil, which can be used to make repeated color prints...
Mayr did not begin his academic career studying biology. As an undergraduate in Germany in the 1920s, he originally planned to follow family tradition and become a doctor...
...that each year must cope with a third of the nation's new arrivals. The last time the U.S. faced a comparable flood, from 1901 to 1910, it set off years of jingoistic reaction against the newcomers -- Italians, Jews and other East Europeans -- until Washington tightened quotas in the 1920s and gave the nation time to absorb the influx...