Word: robert
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...utmost ambition," Robert Frost claimed, "is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of." He succeeded. Fragments of Frost's handmade poems turn up in the subsoil of the American mind like arrowheads or old farm tools...
...born; John Kennedy was 10 months away from assassination when Frost died. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy would end his set political speech by saying: "But I have miles to go before I sleep." Everyone recognized the line. As Jay Parini remarks in a judicious new biography, Robert Frost: A Life (Henry Holt; 514 pages; $35), it is almost impossible not to memorize "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Like the best of Frost's lyrics, the lines have a mysterious inevitability...
Parini, himself a novelist and a poet, is something of a partisan--"Robert Frost has been my favorite poet ever since the ninth grade"--but his readings of the poems and of the man are shrewd. Frost had what might be called a limited greatness. Parini's dust jacket calls him "the only truly 'national poet' America has yet produced." No. That would still be Whitman...
...breakthrough for Hadid. First, most of the projected $23 million budget will be raised privately, so the design's fate won't be subject to the opinions of every person with a subscription to Architectural Digest. Second, Cincinnati's Art Center is no stranger to controversy. Remember the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in 1990? This is nothing. And last, Cincinnati, already home to a lot of smart architecture thanks to the University of Cincinnati, wants the building...
...question is, Why would any intelligent person with freedom of choice, living at the very end of the 20th century, want to base her actions, roles and self-concept on those of cavewomen? It would make about as much sense to base her actions on those of chimpanzees. ROBERT REESE Bulawayo, Zimbabwe...