Word: tennyson
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Perhaps Kennedy should have quoted a more appropriate Tennyson passage than the one he used...
...listeners. Ted Kennedy's roar, once strangely uncertain, now clearly had become a force to move a multitude's emotions. The youngest of the Kennedy brothers, for so long during this campaign at odds with himself, seemed to have found a kind of peace. He quoted some lines from Tennyson's Ulysses...
...material for an art form a little more complex and reflective than television. Mao Tse-tung, for example, interminably turned his Chinese struggles into poetry. But American politics and poetry have never been able to form a lasting relationship. Oh, Ted Kennedy quotes the passage of Tennyson that his brothers admired, and Eugene McCarthy likes to write verse, often of the pointlessly enigmatic kind ("I am alone/ In the land of the aardvarks . . ."). John Kennedy had Robert Frost read at his Inauguration, and Jimmy Carter asked similar service of James Dickey. But, on the whole, Americans have preferred Plato...
Excellent poets (Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Masefield), as well as bad ones, have served as poet laureate, yet the job has virtually never called forth any verse more memorable than the sort of decoratively obsequious doggerel that a well-educated butler might compose. The most enduringly dreadful lines were penned by the spellbound and earnest Alfred Austin in the late 19th century. Austin, author of "Leszko the Bastard, a Tale of Polish Grief," auditioned for the laureate's post with a marvelously stupefying couplet on the illness of the Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came...
...Science moves, but slowly slowly," complained Tennyson, "creeping on from point to point." Just so, and generations of students have been unwilling to walk the tedious trail that might eventually lead to a career in the laboratory. The loss is society's, and the answer to the horrors of a Three Mile Island or a Love Canal is not clamping down on science, but training more and better scientists. This remarkable PBS series is a welcome attempt to answer that need. Science, it says, is not only the world's biggest game; it is also the most exciting...