Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Review; in Gambier, Ohio. Widely acclaimed for his poems, which were distinguished by compressed emotion expressed in courtly rhetoric, Ransom was also an influential teacher. As an instructor at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s, the Tennessee-born Rhodes scholar shepherded the Fugitives, a flock of young Southern poets (including Allen Tate and Robert Perm Warren) who celebrated the virtues of Southern agrarianism in defiance of the machine age. In 1937 Ransom moved to Kenyon College, where he attracted such poets as Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell, and fathered the New Criticism, which stressed rigorous textual analysis rather than the study...
...Johnston Jr., 42, a conservative Democrat from northern Louisiana, began his climb in his state's house of representatives a decade ago. Though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1971, the following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
...Latin neighbors. Like the North American press, which usually gives coverage only to coups and the death of caudillos, the commercial film industry produces only infrequent glimpses of Latin America--usually more harmful than helpful. Perhaps many people in this country, when they think of Latin America, picture Woody Allen blowing off his hand with a grenade as a bungling guerrilla in a banana republic, where revolutions are such regular happenings that Howard Cosell interviews the deposed leader as he dies on the palace steps...
...sophisticated" urban audiences and earned two and three grand a week. He became a liberal and cultural cause cetebre as city police and D.A.s began to dog him and his performances across the country with obscenity busts and costly trials. But Lenny bad-mouthed and alienated the heavies like Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling who had enlisted in his defense. He got obsessed with the dream of self-vindication and as he struggled from court to court he began ranting about things like due process and the First Amendment. It was not so much that his last performances were charged...
Play It Again Sam and Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? are being co-featured at the Orson Welles Cinema I until Saturday. Woody Allen's take-off on the Casablanca theme is not only hysterically funny, it's heart-rending as well. Both Allen and Diane Keaton give lovely performances here. This one is worth watching again and again. Where's Poppa? is usually pretty tasteless and it belabors an already overworn joke to the point of tedium. In all fairness, though, the movie has its moments. Complete shows start...