Word: oded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes. The old bourgeois-baiter composes a contented ode to his new kitchen and a hymn to hot baths, a worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...
...middle-class mores, skillfully portrays a vacationing businessman who imagines an intrigue between his voluptuous young wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...
...Europe, Africa and Asia, and to supplye the wantes of all our decayed trades." Bradford's "spirite of God and his grace" were conceits foreign to the minds of these entrepreneurs. In return for their investment they wanted earthly dividends of the sort envisioned by Michael Drayton in his "Ode to the Virginia Voyage...
...Guthrie has ever been associated with in the U.S. Except for cutting some lines for pace, he trusts the author and the playgoer, for a change, and the play flashes like an unsheathed sword, keen, virile, inescapably compelling. It is a patriot's poem of valor, a memorial ode written in the bright and acrid air of combat for all men who ever fought, bled and died for their country's honor...
Three second prizes of $25 each were awarded to Michael Ehrhardt '66, who presented "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, to Cheng-Teik Goh '65, who recited "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, and to Andreas W. Teuber '64, who delivered Glouster's speech from Act III of Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare...