Word: odes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zhiuago) Pasternak, reluctant rejecter of last year's Nobel award. Huffed Nobelman Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite in 1957, he turned out an ode titled The New Moon for Italy's Communist daily L'Unita...
...Ode to Lyndon. But the odes to Lyndon Johnson were far more meaningful. Indiana's Freshman Vance Hartke (an avowed political enemy of fellow Hoosier Butler, who opposed Hartke's nomination last year) fairly wooed the muse: "His hand has been firm on the tiller, insisting that the ship of state not founder on the rocks of partisanship. No one who has sat in this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson...
...Summer School Chorus is preparing for its annual concert on Thursday, August 13th. This year's program will include choruses from Handel's oratorio Solomon, motets and madrigals of the Renaissance and the Twentieth Century, the Solemn Vespers by Mozart, and the Ode to St. Cecelia by Norman Dello Joio...
...collections which can be seen by the public. The Keats collection, in a lavishly furnished, oak-paneled room on the second floor is another. It is the finest collection of "Keatsiana" anywhere. Including manuscript copies of three major poems Lamia, St. Agnes Eve, and Ode to Autumn, the collection contains two-thirds of the bulk of Keats' surviving manuscripts. About one-half of the collection was given to Harvard by Amy Lowell, along with many rare books from her own library; an addition, equal in size to the original gift was given later by Amory Houghton who occasionally adds...
Maillol once wrote to a friend, "I would have made a bad prose author. Poetry resembles sculpture so much more...." These words express perfectly the spirit of the sculptor. He was never involved with circumstance, with anti-climax. His work, in part or in whole, constitutes an ode, clear, direct and without dissonance...