Word: poe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell's soccer team emerged from a rough-and-tumble game on Princeton's Poe Field Saturday morning as the proud owners of a 3-1 victory over the Tigers and the 1977 Ivy league championship...
...rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination. In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes are funereal black, with ruby splashes in a proffered drink or a crimsoned pendant to accent the theme of Dracula's blood lust...
...biggest game today, though, will take place on Princeton's Poe Field, where the Tigers (1-1 Ivy, 4-2 overall) take on surprise league leader Columbia...
...filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback who, until hitching up with Maelzel, was the second best chess player at the Café de la Régence in Paris. The machine might have conned its way across the country save for a brilliant detective named Edgar Allan Poe, who exposed the secret in 1836. Maelzel and Schlumberger both died two years later...
...earned only 15,982 francs and 60 centimes from more than two decades of scribbling. The reigning critic of the day, Sainte-Beuve, referred to Baudelaire as a translator and journalist rather than a poet. Small wonder the writer identified himself with that other 19th century comet, Edgar Allan Poe ("not a kindred spirit but a twin"), whose work he introduced to France. Indeed, Baudelaire made more money from his Poe translations than from his own poems, essays of self-scrutiny (Intimate Journals) and art criticism (The Painter of Modern Life...