Word: poemes
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...like the idea, it looks as if it's going to be important to understand the culture of Southern California. After all, it has formed two Presidents and provided a congenial atmosphere for the retirement of a third. James McMichael's Four Good Things, a new long poem about--of all things--Pasadena, makes such an effort. It is also about worry, death, sex manuals, taxes, domestic architecture, the Industrial Revolution, real estate, and the American soul...
About 15 students delivered a three-minute rendition of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" to interrupt Casey, who was speaking on the need for a greater intelligence network to countermand a growing Soviet military threat...
...congruent allusion without ever getting too literal, where the art-history and real-history footnotes balance and bear one another out. A remarkable one is If Not, Not, 1975-76, his meditation on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. One could hardly call it an illustration of the poem, although Eliot seems to make an appearance as the clerkish figure with spectacles and hearing aid in the lower left corner, an irritable St. Anthony tempted by a naked girl to whom he has clearly not been introduced...
Whereas Mosè is a nearly static drama-Rossini at times referred to it as an oratorio-La Donna del Lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an atmospheric treatment of Sir Walter Scott's poem. It is a bucolic score, with harps and hunting horns highlighting the composer's landscape painting. Donna, full of infectious melodies, is closer in spirit to the great comedies...
...though he seems to crave the adventure of war, his sense of obligation is the impelling force, one almost inconceivable to someone of the era after the battle of the Somme. Archy may be ingenuous, but he is thoroughly earnest--earnest like someone who grew up with a Kipling poem pinned on his wall--and not in the least sanctimonious. One of the tangible accomplishments of the film is actor Mark Lee's successful carrying off the role without any lapses of mawkishness...