Word: pantheonic
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...GAME by Julio Cortázar. 277 pages. Pantheon...
...rehearsal of his opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, when into the new King's Theater walked the royal bailiffs with an order prohibiting the performance. King George III had decided that the London of 1791 was big enough for only one Italian opera company-his own at the rival Pantheon...
From Pound to the Beats. In the 20th century so far, the devotees of the "second chance" have constituted a remarkable poetic pantheon. The Zeus of that lofty company is himself still alive, though he has long since had his say. Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet...
Masefield led English poetry out of its Victorian sententiousness and thus earned his modest place in the poets' pantheon. In one of his last books, he wrote: "It is time now to pipe down and coil...
...S.D.S., the New Left includes other small groups, largely consisting of individuals with a surrounding cluster of followers. There is, of course, Mario Savio, of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, but his stature has faded along with the issue. The more stable heroes in the New Left's pantheon are Staughton Lynd, 38, a pacifist and professor of American history at Yale between speaking engagements, and Tom Hayden, 27, an S.D.S. founder who now heads the independent Newark Community Union Project, a small but energetic program to help the poor. Both attracted a lot of attention a year...