Word: augustans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Augustan elegance of The Movement has been challenged in recent years by a hearty, animalistic poet named Ted Hughes, and by the "Teddy-bards" who call themselves The Group (Philip Hobsbaum, Edward Lucie-Smith, George Macbeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove) and declare their dedication to a more accidental poetry, "straggly, diffuse, full of not obviously related particulars, beginning anyhow and seeming to end when the poet becomes naturally tired." Typically, The Group writes about a giggling secretary with "beard-rash that twinkles on my thighs," about an executive with breath "rank and vicious, like menstrual blood," about teeth full...
...workers dug deeper, they began the first thorough housecleaning that the rooms had had in nearly 20 centuries. Bucket after bucket of earth was lifted out of the first room, and Carettoni spotted faint patterns on the inner plaster walls-well-preserved frescoes of the long-gone Augustan period...
...going to run for Congress.' I've never taken the view that the world of politics and the world of poetry are so far apart." Poet Frost, too, had some amiable things to say about politics and poetry, summed up the New Frontier as "an Augustan Age* of poetry and power, with the emphasis on power...
...foreign policy, some applications of Augustan power might well benefit the cause of liberty and justice in the world, but the Administration is learning that many of the U.S.'s frustrations abroad result from factors -the momentum of history, the vanity of foreign leaders, the poverty of foreign peoples -that the U.S., with all its power, can do little or nothing to change in a hurry. Last week Adlai Stevenson uttered forceful words in the U.N. ; Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams all but went native on a tour of Africa; and the Administration's Peace Corps...