Word: aloud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poems on this record were all written to be read aloud, as Plath says in the interview, but there are two in particular--"The Applicant" and "Daddy"--that are so obviously meant to be heard, it's almost impossible to read them without at least whispering them to yourself. And the reading that Plath gives them here leaves them with an indelible echo, so that they are never the same again. Both poems are essentially chants, with hard, driving rhythms, and recurring sound patterns. In "The Applicant" the repetition is clipped...
...several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded...
...acquisition "the most important action I took in foreign affairs." Laying claim to the 550-sq.-mi. Panama Canal Zone indeed entailed a classic shake of the Big Stick-and so it may again. At his press conference in Minneapolis last week, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worried aloud that the quasi-U.S. colony, which straddles the strategic waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, could become the focus of "a kind of nationalistic, guerrilla type of operation that we have not seen before in the Western Hemisphere." He was referring to the very real prospect...
...Victorian three-decker, as ingenious as an embezzlement scheme -and incidentally an astringent comment on the predicament of being female. As a little girl, Clara is orphaned, and raised in the forbidding London home of a pious uncle. When she is so light-minded as to laugh aloud at the antics of a bird in the garden, he whips her neck with a watch chain. The child accurately notes that it was indeed the custom to birch girls on the bared portions of their anatomies, but adds that nevertheless it was "inexpressibly painful...
...books and who teaches one of the seminars in the full year program. The first session, which drew 40 people this year, was an introduction to poetry, what Whitman calls "exploring its sources" Participants may not be experienced poets, but they all experiment during the week, reading their work aloud for others to comment on. The second session, which took place this week, was created at the demand of alumni who attended a session similar to this year's first and is an intensive poetry workshop for people who have attended the first session or who are experienced poets...