Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Poetry," said Stevens when he heard the news, "is my way of making the world palatable . . . There's a sense of imminent tragedy in the air today . . . What any poet does is to address himself to that situation. What he gets is not necessarily a solution, but some defense against...
...Soccer Games. In Milan, 3,000 Red activists patrolled the gates of the huge Breda steel plant and other factories, barred workers from entering. Others stopped the city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized...
Early each morning, the Service's lone truck picks up all mail for Harvard, except student mail and letters with no more explicit address than "Harvard"; these are sent to Weld Hall for further interpretation. The mail is already sorted by buildings at the Post Office, and Greene's office integrates the mailbags into seven piles, for delivery to seven sub-stations located around the outskirts of the Harvard territory...
According to the New Haven's new plan, the rolling bleachers will be replaced by wide-windowed parlor cars equipped with a public address system. A $10 fare will cover both transportation costs and spectator privileges...
These participants are: the orator, who delivers a 10-to-15-minute address on a serious topic concerning the class; the Ivy orator, who delivers a humorous address of similar length; the odist, who writes two stanzas to the melody of "Fair Harvard"; the chorister, who sings the first verse of this song and leads the Class in the second verse, and the poet, who writes a short poem on any subject and who reads it during the exercises...