Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performed frequently by more than a dozen major companies. With 110 ballets to his credit since he left Russia-including such masterpieces as Serenade, Agon, Apollo, The Four Temperaments, Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C-he has no rival as a choreographer, but it is his special genius to convey his thoughts to his dancers. He is, they say, the world's greatest teacher...
...tanks massing at dawn along the border, the frustrated rage of West Berlin student rioters, the strange claustrophobia of the beleaguered city, which extends even to the press of boats cluttering the Wannsee of a Sunday afternoon. More rare is Diplomatic Insider Thayer's ability to convey with tape-recorder fidelity imaginary encounters between U.S. diplomats and the Russians in the kind of baleful restricted bargaining that still sometimes takes place in the city...
Nevertheless some difficulties remain. In their chapter on the Negroes the authors assume a hard-headed reasonableness that proves illuminating in a discussion of school boycotts (the current rage) but fails to convey the spirit and depth of commitment involved in the civil rights struggle. I wish too that they had placed more emphasis on the forces behind the rise of Negro extremism and the effect of permanent poverty, on the Negro's response to the compound problem of discrimination and unemployment. Two other omissions mar the book, the failure to adequately discuss the difference between the Puerto Rican...
Rapturous Piety. Unabashedly, Ransom describes a lyric poem as "an act of rapturous piety; a homage to human nature despite its hateful and treacherous tendencies." Dry, knit-browed New Critics, trying to justify their unexpected fondness for such a man, are often as unsuccessful as connoisseurs trying to convey the exact flavor of a vintage wine. One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies -his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only...
...sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when poetry was thought to treat directly of such things as Truth and Beauty. When he accepted the 1964 award, with typical courtesy he gave thought to "the other nominated poets who were passed over."His pleasure, he averred, was "compounded with a pain." Then, characteristically...