Word: poste
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When President James B. Conant '14 sought to appoint a curator for the new college poetry room in 1932, he personally offered the post to Robert Frost, then at the height of his fame. Frost, who had won the Pulitzer prize the year before for his new Selected Poems, wished the room well but politely said that he preferred to remain at his home in Amherst, Mass...
...manual laborer, publishing three volumes of poetry during the twenty years he worked in the construction business. And he was as familiar with the Harvard poetry collections as anyone, having spent much time in the room while working at Widener--a qualification he cited when he applied for the post...
...than Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" (8). It's the only song from the past 30 years, and considering the chronological proximity of the selections, one wonders if it doesn't reflect a token vote from a panel with an apparent generational disconnect from post-'60s genres. Maybe it'll take a few years to see the likes of Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Prince, Andy Partridge, Steve Earle, John Hiatt, Kurt Cobain and Bruce Springsteen, not to mention...
...post-cold war world, Americans worry more about dotcom stocks falling on the NASDAQ than they do about missiles falling from the sky. For those who do fear nuclear holocaust, however, there is www.protectamericansnow.com There you can get your very own "Customized Missile Threat Profile." Just type in your ZIP code, and the program will tell you which countries purportedly have the ability to hit your community with intercontinental ballistic missiles--and which countries may soon have the power to make your life that kind of nightmare. The site was masterminded by Frank Gaffney, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary...
...Elian's return "a great victory, just like the Bay of Pigs." But this custody saga has proved to be more than an extended tit for tat. Just as Elian's young mind will now struggle to reconcile the polarized worlds of Pikachu and Elpidio, he may have forced post-cold war politics to do the same. That's largely because Elian showed many Americans that not everyone in Cuba wears a beard, fatigues and an anti-gringo scowl...