Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this peculiar awareness of events beyond himself, of history, of classicism, of others' predicaments, that lends to Wilbur's verse an importance often absent in the work of younger poets. American poetry seems to have always been dominated by something during this century: by Eliot, or W. C. Williams, or now by confessionalism. What is so remarkable about Wilbur is the way in which he belongs to other ages than his own, without ignoring the crises of the present. In a rare political poem he read at Harvard, Wilbur spoke of President Johnson's less than gracious response...
This is the peculiar magic of the strange plaster figures of Sculptor George Segal. In a new show at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery, he demonstrates that at 44, he has survived his early classification as a pop artist to become a major, if idiosyncratic sculptor subject to no label whatever...
Atkins is still one of the most progressive members of the City Council. He does suport a greater Boston community role in government, though with his peculiar requirements for consensus. But he is no "spokesman" for black aspirations, which, as Baldwin reasoned and Brooke proves, is probably very healthy for his career...
...press played a peculiar role in encouraging this self-indulgence. It obviously considered itself unsullied by what one Harvard scholar called "the circus" in Whig Hall. And it broke into vigorous applause when Sam Brown delivered his blistering attack on the fourth day of the conference. Still, why the press was there at all was a mystery to most of the participants, and by its elaborate coverage--there were probably as many reporters as participants and the cameramen were ubiquitous--the news media admitted implicitly the importance of the people whom it ridiculed in daily copy. Most of their stories...
...bottomlessly downcast, he is listless. On the other hand, John B. McKean, who plays Oakapple's foster brother, is ceaselessly, aimlessly and rather awkwardly energetic. He is always swirling, prancing and dance-stepping. His good intentions and obvious relish for the part can neither overcome nor excuse the peculiar dialect in which his lines are delivered. There is no saying for sure, but, perhaps, a boy from a good neighborhood somewhere in the South trying to imitate a boy from a bad neighborhood in Liverpool could sound as he does. His voice, like Kessler's, is adequate for the demanding...