Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest New Year's honor that can befall a Japanese is to have his poem recited to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito. Less than ten poems are recited. All must be on the same subject (chosen in advance by the Imperial Household Ministry). All must be in the requisite tanka form of 31 syllables in lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables. Each year at least 30,000 Japanese poets strive for the honor. U. S. cable companies are grateful for the fact that Japanese living abroad usually wire their contributions. Those...
...Unlike Western poetry, a Japanese poem is not intended to express a complete thought but to suggest a series of poetic ideas in the reader's mind...
Under the direction of Mr. Clifton, who received a master's degree in music from Harvard, the Boston musicians will render Handel's "Concerto Grosso for a String Orchestra in F Major" as the first number. This will be followed by Griffes "Poem for Flute and Orchestra", a new work, for which Georges Laurent, a regular member of the orchestra, will carry the solo parts. Next on the program will be "Daybreak" and Siegfried's "Rhine Journey," excerpts from Wagner's famous opera "Die Gotterdammenung," Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in 11 Major," one of the best known of the Finnish...
...anthology he considered good writing, not even California paid him much attention. When he began to cultivate his own garden and write stories in the dialect of his adopted State the whole U. S. sat up and took notice. Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure. It begins...
...foremost Western writer. Harte was born in Albany, N. Y., never liked his adopted State of California very much, and spent the last 24 years of his life abroad. A writer of serious ambitions, he rode to fame on the gales of laughter caused by a funny poem of which he was ashamed...