Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist Carl Seashore, S.U.I, took on the arts wholesale, and with typical Midwestern hospitality proceeded to make them right at home. It was one of the first universities to hit upon the idea that a novel, poem or painting could be as worthy of an advanced degree as even the most scholarly thesis...
...medium?more like a country gentleman. Born in Paris at the turn of the century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without...
...emphasized again by two elderly ladies who kicked up their heels with the enthusiasm of dancers a third their age. ¶ In the Hollywood Bowl Ruth St. Denis, grandmother of the modern dance, unveiled her first new production since 1934, The Ballet of Light, set to Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy. Surrounded by nine young men and women in short, Romanesque costumes, "Miss Ruth," 74, impersonated the spirit of light, moving majestically in yards of billowing silk, her hands articulate, her youthful-looking neck arched attractively, showing her years only when she attempted a fast step. An audience...
...poem, Dylan Thomas' Fern Hill, opens with the memorable, smiling first lines...
...camera like a casual host reading to guests in his library. What distinguishes Nordine's shows from others like it is the flashing telephone by his side. He has adapted the disk jockey's request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks up the telephone, listens to a new request from a viewer, and makes small talk while he leafs through his library to find the poem or passage wanted. Now for Nordine is broadcast after peak viewing hours, yet hundreds of listeners try to phone in every week. Those...