Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-war approach was made possible by a change in Red Cross regulations. Previously, people under 21 were required to obtain written parental consent before donating blood. For this reason, past blood drives began collecting signatures of pledged donors early in the fall term...
...LOOKING at The Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology. It's an enormous book 460 pages of sermons, poems, informal essays. T.S. Eliot has some delicate lyrics composed while he was an undergraduate here. Theodore Roosevelt has written a bellicose speech on "Harvard and Preparedness" (including some remarks about "the absurd and mischievous professional-pacifist or peace-at-any-price movements which have so thoroughly discredited this country during the past five years. These men are seeking to chinafy the country."): E.E. Cummings wrote rhymed poems as an undergraduate, and these are to be found here too. Photographs of Wallace Stevens...
...Advocate, or even knew what it was; but this seemed to plague no one, nor had it probably ever. Literature was something to be administered, like medicine, in small, unpleasant doses. Even then, we would periodically receive poems from Vermont or Iowa, but The Advocate was a magazine written by its editors and for them. It was always the same script, with only the scruple of variation...
...lived here for several years while writing his thesis on Robert Lowell, and then had moved out to Berkeley. Now he looked like he was from California. That night he read some poems which had appeared in the San Francisco Oracle, talked a lot about a book written by an Indian, Black Elk, and then a drug poem called "STP." There was a party at the House afterwards. Someone had brought a record player and the music was really loud. People were dancing beneath the plaques on the walls; the medieval table had been pushed aside, the wooden chairs were...
...People coming into the Band over the last ten years have been much better musicians," Walker said this week. "When I came here, the Band was principally a light concert band. That pretty much changed in 1960; since then, the Band has played every major piece originally written for winds," he continued...