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...selection of the year's best movies, see CINEMA...
Like the rat in his incantatory verse, Theodore Roethke writes poetry in which the meaning is just beneath the surface, with only the end of its nose showing. Perhaps the best of the U.S. poetic generation that is wedged between the spare witticisms of Wallace Stevens and the distempered howls of Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation, 50-year-old Poet Roethke has restored simplicity to the tortured, packed lines of U.S. moderns. He has brought back melody to a poetry that was becoming as labored and dissonant as the twelve-tone scale...
...impenetrable as many another modern and lesser poet. If always seeming to promise more than any one poem entirely achieves, always seeming on the verge of breaking through his obscurities into the clear radiance of revelation, he still achieves more than most moderns can even hint at. His best lines have the directness of that other master of obscure simplicities, William Blake. Of hope: "My gates are all caves." Of love: "The pure admire the pure, and live alone; I love a woman with an empty face." Of the clear judgments of childhood...
Christmas (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Bishop Fulton J. Sheen applies the Nativity story to 20th century life. Services follow over ABC at 10:45 p.m. from Washington's Lutheran Church of the Reformation, which boasts one of the best choirs...
...Patrick's Cathedral (NBC, 12-1:45 a.m.). Midnight Mass from New York's best-known Roman Catholic church...