Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"You're not going to study your way into a love of poetry," Robert Frost told the enthralled multitudes at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. Not formal training but education "by hook and by crook" is necessary to become a good night reader--a reader who can fall in love at...
"The purpose of all purposes in man is not a rational one but an instinctive one. It is love at first sight--love an idea, of a girl, of a cause." The assertion of purpose is non-rational; "it's a great gamble, but the work is play for great...
Physicists will admit that the Universe "is the Thing of Things with lots of little balls that go around in rings," Frost said, quoting from one of his poems. However, the scientist rejects the idea that there could be any purpose before man arrived on the scene. And for the...
Beginning with Revelation, "a little piece I wrote 1000 years ago," he read and recited a series which culminated with Accidentally on Purpose. "Whose purpose was it, his, or hers, or its? I'll leave it to the scientific wits." A departure from the theme to Frost's famous rendition...
Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Sr. '87, a Pulitzer Prize winner and father of Law School professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, died at his son's home Tuesday night.