Word: snodgrass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while it worked. Their daughter Harriet was born. They held expansive dinner parties at which intellectual nourishment was served with the same elegance that accompanied the finger bowls. Critics Edmund Wilson and Philip Rahv dined there, and so did Poets William Carlos Williams, Richard Eberhart and William Snodgrass, Lowell's most gifted student. "Lowell liked the successful poets with more than just a literary interest," recalls a friend. "They were reproductive, they had lasted the course-they were heroes of letters...
...where some 1,500,000 sharks were caught on rod and reel last year, "monster fishing" is a fast-growing sport among anglers who are weary of coming home with nothing but a sunburn. "You get a 150-lb. shark on a 20-lb.-test line," says Wayne Snodgrass, an electronics technician from San Rafael, Calif., "and it's like holding a horse on a shoestring...
Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...
...next day from critics over the absence of works by living American composers. There were plenty of living celebrities at the reception that followed: Marian Anderson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Paul Horgan, Peter Kurd, Jasper Johns, Erich Leinsdorf, Robert Lowell, Gian Carlo Menotti, Anna Moffo, Mark Rothko, W. D. Snodgrass, Edward Steichen, Richard Wilbur, Herman Wouk and Minoru Yamasaki...
...GEORGIA. In 1952, says G.O.P. National Committeeman Robert Snodgrass, Georgia's Republican organization could fit "in somebody's hatband." Today there are organizations in 130 of 159 counties. Republicans have elected two city councilmen in Atlanta, another in Augusta, two state representatives, four state senators, and they are contesting several congressional races this fall. All this has gotten the Democrats out of their hammocks. They recently opened their first fulltime state headquarters in Atlanta. "Let's face it," says one Georgia Democrat, "it's the first time we ever...