Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That the elements of a decent poem are so construed that they take meaning only in relation to the totality, indeed that the progressing of a poem can make unnecessary and even harmful the coagulation of inspiration, is proved, if it needed proving, by Rachel Hadas' exposition of a paradox...
So the argument proceeds, convincing the ear before the meaning is fully catalogued. If it is not a great poem it is at least an interesting and superbly controlled one.
Bumplcins in Buckskin. As international expositions go, HemisFair is a minifair, only slightly larger than Seattle's Century 21 but only one-tenth the size of Montreal's Expo '67, the alltime giant. As a result, the exposition is "manageable in human terms," says HemisFair's...
The concretist movement began simultaneously in Europe and Brazil in the early 1950s, and has now washed up in the U.S. Its antecedents go all the way back to prehistoric picture writing, with such variations along the way as the anagrams of early Christian monks, Apollinaire's Calligrammes, and...
If Kubrick's superb film has a problem, it may simply be that great philosophical-metaphysical films about human progress and man's relationship to the cosmos have one strike against them when they attempt to be literally just that. Rossellini's radiant religious films or Bresson's meditative ascetiscism...