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Robert Kennedy Duncan
Robert Kennedy Duncan 1868-1914, American industrial chemist and educator b. Brantford, Ont., grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.A., 1892). He was professor at the Univ. of Kansas (1906-10) and at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (1910-14). In Kansas he introduced the system of fellowships for research in industrial chemistry that became the basic plan of the Mellon Institute (now part of Carnegie-Mellon Univ.) and greatly furthered the discovery of new products and new processes. He wrote several books for laymen.
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"Not to creation or destruction but to truth": Robert Duncan, Kenneth Anger, and the conversation between film and poetry.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...generally recognized as part of Robert Duncan's overall poetics. This essay...poetics within the context of Robert Duncan's decades-long friendship...Gnostic Contagion and Mark Jacob's Robert Duncan) do not at any point discuss...
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The gift of the poem: Mallarme and Robert Duncan's Ground Work: before the war.(Stephane Mallarme, French symbolist)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT Robert Duncan's poetry is conventionally read...When Wallace Stevens died in 1955, Robert Duncan confided in a letter to Charles...Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Robert Creeley. (3) Duncan's admission may therefore seem...
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Moosehunting with Robert Duncan
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Francisco in 1969, the year of Woodstock, she met Robert Duncan: Duncan told Thorn that they liked each other's company...but hadn't smoked it because of her asthma, so Duncan made her marijuana brownies and got her high for the...
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Robert Duncan
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 4/13/2001; 386 words
; Robert Duncan, age 58, of Waukegan, Illinois died...Survivors include his mother, Louise Duncan of Waukegan, IL; four sisters, Rezoila...Willie) Garrett of North Chicago and Sylvia Duncan of Waukegan, IL; five brothers, Lewis...
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LINGUISTIC VERSUS ORGANIC, SFUMATO VERSUS CHIAROSCURO: SOME AESTHETIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DENISE LEVERTOV AND ROBERT DUNCAN
Magazine article from: Renascence; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...THE publication of The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov has brought...immediate reaction was to forward Duncan a swift letter enquiring whether...signed with R.D., stand for Robert Duncan? You don't sound like him...
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Linguistic versus organic, sfumato versus chiaroscuro: some aesthetic differences between Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan.
Magazine article from: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...THE publication of The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov has brought...immediate reaction was to forward Duncan a swift letter enquiring whether...signed with R.D., stand for Robert Duncan? You don't sound like him...
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New MSU business dean sees potential in executive ed.(Robert Duncan of Michigan State University)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business; 10/8/2001; ; 700+ words
; Robert Duncan, Michigan State University's new dean...the six-month search for a new dean say Duncan's background at Northwestern University...The $250,000-a-year job, which Duncan begins Jan. 1, won't be without challenges...
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ROBERT DUNCAN, 75, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/7/2004; 409 words
; Robert B. Duncan Sr. of Saugus, a heavy-equipment operator, died Feb. 28 at Kindred...American Legion. He leaves a daughter, Leona Greene of Billerica; sons, Robert Duncan Jr. of Salisbury, Steven Duncan of Saugus, and Nelson Duncan of New...
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A conversation with Robert Duncan (1976). (part 1)(poet)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...following interview was conducted at Robert Duncan's request in Huntington Beach...Review 44:1 (Winter, 1998). Robert Peters: Robert, it is a pleasure...interviews and conversations. Robert Duncan: I have felt dissatisfied with...
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Mystery, myth, and presence: concord and conflict in the correspondence of Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan.
Magazine article from: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...measure, the correspondence between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov constitutes the...amplified by references to hers and Duncan's other published prose, I hope...Levertov's continued indebtedness to Duncan manifests itself in some of her finest...
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Robert Duncan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Duncan 1919-88, American poet, b. Oakland, Calif. He was a leading poet of the San Francisco renaissance during the late 1940s...
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Robert Kennedy Duncan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Kennedy Duncan 1868-1914, American industrial chemist and educator b. Brantford, Ont., grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.A., 1892). He...
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Duncan, Robert (Edward)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Duncan, Robert [Edward] (1919–88),poet...associations of the moment of composition, Duncan's writing tends to be rhapsodic and orphic...s Cantos and Olson's Maximus poems. Duncan's collections include Heavenly City...
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Duncan, (Robert) Todd
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Duncan, [Robert] Todd (1903–98), singer and actor. The African‐...Kentucky. His Broadway appearances were rare but always memorable. Duncan was the original Porgy in Porgy and Bess (1935) and later appeared...
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Duncan, Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Duncan, Robert, see Black Mountain Poets .
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