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...conduct several of his older works-Psalm and Fugue, the 28-minute Concerto No. 8-plus two brand-new works written in transit: Symphony No. 8, subtitled "Arjuna," after the name of a mythical hero from Indian folklore; and the choral piece Fuji (based on an 8th century Japanese poem beginning: "As I stepped out on the beach of Tago, I saw snow falling on Mount Fuji...
...White Goddess, and great whooping cranes of scholarly controversy. As a man who travels "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head," Graves ranges airily from poetry to poltergeists, from mushrooms to Majorca (his expatriate home). Though the form changes-essay, lecture, story, poem-the wryly cantankerous wit and charm remain the same...
...bored"). Once, when one such canvas was done, Willem de Kooning, 56, the Grand Old Man of the New York School, dubbed it Christmas Tree, because it had been painted at that time of year. But Joan Mitchell remembered the dark and blue feeling of a Wallace Stevens poem that spoke of peacocks and hemlocks. "So I called it Hemlock, but everyone thought I meant poison...
...like celebration of The Private World of Pablo Picasso. From a snowscape of Red Square-that symbolic replica of the Russian steppes in the heart of Moscow-to the two-headed imperial eagle screaming on a cloth of gold, The Kremlin is a tone poem of somber and dazzling opulence...
...Estimated increase during the Eisenhower era, 1953-60: 12%. *Whether or not the tag helped Smith, it did help Roosevelt: he became known as the man who called Al Smith the Happy Warrior. But Roosevelt deserved little credit. The Wordsworth couplet (from the poem that was read at Grover Cleveland's funeral in 1908) was written into the nominating speech by its principal ghostwriter, New York Judge Joseph M. Proskauer. Roosevelt accepted the idea reluctantly, argued that the flourish was too literary for hardheaded convention delegates...