Word: timely
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...talking without notes. Price, the author of many books, was for almost half a century the chief editorialist of the Boston Globe. Beethoven starts his third century in a year plagued by war. Below are the concluding paragraphs of Price's remarks spoken 25 years ago in another time racked...
...trust that when the CRIMSON considers a potentially destructive article in the future, the editors will see fit to take the necessary time to solicit the facts of the situation from those people who are best able to provide them...
...REMEMBER the first time I read "The Fish." I was in ninth grade at a new school, very timid and very scared, and I knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently because it was written about my brother's birthday. I didn't enjoy reading poems; they were difficult, and I didn't think they were interesting enough to make the difficulty worthwhile. But I had a young and very good English teacher that year, and he put "The Fish" in front...
...pretentious preconceptions, all our prejudices. Elizabeth Bishop caters to no one, except to the careful reader. Her poems are not easy, and they make no attempt to be popular. I myself find them so vivid, so intensely compressed that I can only read a little at a time. But Miss Bishop's poems are not consciously difficult by any means; they are almost too clear to look at. She is the least esoteric of poets: when she speaks, she speaks to us all out of her own peculiar wisdom. For those who want to listen, the rewards are vast...
...first I thought trucks were screeching their brakes outside, but then I saw that the needle was on the record. They told me it would be an emotional experience-the zoologist who recorded the songs said he'd seen people who listened to them for the first time actually cry because they were so moved. I laughed-I'd been rooked on a Coop $2.99 special...