Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stripping the shepherd's tale of its garlands and Hellenistic pageantry, Tetley retains only the theme of the legend to provide a scaffolding over which he has draped an elaborate visceral poem. In the Chagall-blue-and-aqua forest of Costume and Scenery Designer Willa Kim, Daphnis and Chloë, two innocents danced by Richard Cragun and Marcia Hay dee, are instructed in the art of love-making by Egon Madsen's lithe and sinuous...
Sometimes it seems a little like this Berryman poem I like, about the screen images of rats in childhood prison movies--where "the rats have grown up, mostly, and this is for real"--but usually it all seems civilized and ceremonious and pleasant. One of the articles that helped turn me fully against the war, I realized this year, was about how the Vietnamese were our time's Meursaults: like the people Camus tried to described, they had a faceless, irrational and overpowering enemy, and though they were not classical heroes they attained nobility by fighting oppression. Every day, hundreds...
Later they joined an audience of about 400 in Sanders Theater to hear poet Anthony E. Hecht and Dr. Robert Coles '50, psychiatrist to the University Health Services, deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Poem and Oration...
Hecht opened the deliveries with a humorous poem that purported to be an alcohol-inspired vision of a Hollywood production of the Bicentennial, casting Groucho Mars as P.T. Barnum...
Hecht said that his second poem was written about events that occurred three years ago. It read in part, "My son is born, and in his mother's eyes Turns the whole war and winter into lies...