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...stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found the New Criticism, which stressed the study of the poem or story itself, divorced from its historical context. He also continued to write poems, of which his Ode to the Confederate Dead is the most personal and popular. The main theme of much of his highly intellectual, harsh and often violent poetry, he later wrote, was "man suffering from unbelief," and in 1950 he joined the Roman Catholic Church. He had much in common with T.S. Eliot, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...picaresque adventures that often involve the colonel's mistress Marianne, appealingly played by Florence Lacey. The score is as romantic as candlelight and wine, and the dances are robust in folk flavor. One waltz-like number between Jacobowsky and the colonel (You I Like) is a touching ode to friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Badges of Honor | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Times's editorial policy continues to reflect the same cosmic concerns as before the strike. WHITHER DEÉTENTE? asks the lead editorial, which never bothers to answer. The editorial page includes the inevitable ode to nature's awesome wonders, titled AUTUMN'S FALL ("Now does the deep-throated maple hush its cheery warble ..."). On the Op-Ed page, Columnist James Rest writes from Balkh, Asia Minor (" 'How are you, Scotty?' asked the Khan, gnawing on a Kurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All the News That's Fun to Print | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Desmond Skirrow (1924-76) uses but twelve well-chosen words in Ode on a Grecian Urn summarized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unapologetic Anthology | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...Gimme Some Good Times" is a bright, youthful rock piece that cranks along into "Dirt," a rambling, thumping twangy ode of anger to one "pig of a person--cheap uptown dirt"; cries from a relationship run amok...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Up From the Streets | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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