Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow reminded the world that Russia's leap into space has implications beyond the scientific and the military. A poem in the Russian magazine Krokodil indicates that creation, from a Communist point of view, is at last under new management. Concluding verse...
...rest of the opera missed fire, too. Although crammed with some of Tchaikovsky's most melodious music and adapted from Pushkin's powerfully plotted poem, the opera never came off as a music drama. Despite the Met's handsome and expensive staging, the new production of Onegin was little more than a pleasant opening-night showcase for some attractive singing...
...decrepit hack. We fell into O'Neill's room some time about five. I had just purchased that day a copy of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. When the dawn broke, I was sitting on a trunk, Elkins sprawled across the bed, O'Neill reading in his powerful, melancholy bass, poem after poem from that disturbing collection." --John V.A. Weaver, a classmate...
...first complete edition" of his "Cantico" was published in 1950, after previous editions of the poem had appeared in 1928, 1936, and 1945. After receiving his Licentiate in Letters from the University of Granada, the poet earned his Doctorate at the University of Madrid...
...obvious choice to oversee the Modern McGuffey. He heads the McGuffey Reading Clinic at the University of Virginia, where McGuffey himself taught for 28 years (1845-73). Leavell even owes his first name of Ullin to McGuffey. His parents were especially fond of Thomas Campbell's poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says, "than it does 'quack, quack...