Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only three years as a free government," he reminded critics. "You cannot expect miracles." Yet even he seemed impatient for miracles in the end. No one ever doubted that his objectives were laudable. Mujib wanted nothing less than to build a "shonar Bangla," the golden Bengal of the poem by Rabindranath Tagore that serves as the country's national anthem...
...attacked by the Central Committee of the Communist Party for "vestiges of bourgeois ideology." He apologized, and two years later won a Stalin Prize. In 1962 he once again aroused the state's displeasure for basing part of his Thirteenth Symphony on Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which denounced the Nazi massacre of Jews outside Kiev...
...order to acquire an ear for a tone of voice, the best thing is to hear it. Here is a poem called Tomb of lasis, written...
...several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded...
...sound of two hands clapping will cease immediately thereafter. The Wild Party never develops the fine frenzy it needs. The questionable poem was written more than 40 years ago by Joseph Moncure March, another of whose works was the basis for Robert Wise's excellent film about small-time boxing, The Set-Up (1948). It recounts the sad, eventually violent doings at the home of Funnyman Jolly Grimm (James Coco), whose career as a silent-film star has suffered from the coming of sound. After a five-year absence, Jolly is staging the world premi...