Word: blut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grenier's lines deny that weight exists; they are pure activity. Quoting him is unfair without quoting entirely one of the six poems included -- all, I think, written since he left Cambridge for the Iowa Workshop, from whence he travels this fall to Europe on an Amy Lowell Fellowship -- blut space won't permit it. "For Donald Justice," perhaps the best, is infinitely deeper and wholly more ambitious than early Grenier poems, which tended to be terse conversational fragments of point-blank incorporations of the physical environment, piece by piece. It presents motion without the encumbrances of consecutive common-sense...
...original. The fact is often missed because in the U.S., at least, opera is usually sung in the original language, and most members of the audience have little more than a basic vocabulary consisting of amore morire, andia-mo, bene, coraggio, preghiera; Götter, Liebe, Tod, Sturm, Blut; merveille, sourire, larmes, yeux. English-language performances usually do not help because the translation is too often done by journeymen rather than by competent poets. As it is, the operagoer has the simple duty, to himself and to the work, of glancing at a libretto before he attends a foreign-language...
Died. Joel Brand, 58, Eichmann's emissary to the Allies in 1944 to negotiate the infamous 1,000,000-Jews-for-10,000-trucks proposal, a Hungarian Jew who told his Blut-für-Waren tale to Zionist and British leaders, but met with suspicion, arrest and failure, spent the rest of his life "carrying 1,000,000 Jews on my back"; of a heart attack; in Bad Kissingen, Germany...