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Poet Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle) has taken the more demanding dare. For one thing, as he himself notes, Racine's flawless "syllabic Alexandrines do not and cannot exist in English."* Lowell relies on loose-rhythmed couplets with idiomatic echoes of the English Restoration. Another hazard is that the powdered elegance and stately cadences of French 17th century tragic drama have proved persistently uncongenial to Anglo-American tastes. Poet Lowell, stoking his lines with fire and flair, keeps Phaedra and its key characters well above room temperature...
...Blunder. Then Palmer, normally a flawless sand player, made an $8,000 blunder. He blasted out too strongly, belted his ball over the green and into the gallery, 25 ft. from the pin. Palmer stalked about the green, shaking his head, talking furiously to himself, while his playing partner, Charlie Coe, holed out. Finally Palmer took a putter, addressed his ball-and pushed it a full 12 ft. past the cup. A return putt was wide. Palmer finished with an incredible double-bogey six, slipped into a second-place tie (worth $12,000) with fast-closing Amateur Coe. New Masters...
Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
Breathless. A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...