Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...
...Papa," she would murmur when she had finished, "I don't care what else you did so long you did this poem...
...most valuable and the most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding, by which he addressed Chagall), describing him as having hair like "the trolley cable across Europe arrayed in little many-colored fires." He did Chagall a better favor by instigating a show in 1914 in Berlin. It was a sensation with the German...
...Rolf Hochhuth (The Deputy). They think that Willy Brandt and his Socialists would be a welcome change. Grass is currently on a campaign tour for Brandt. Twenty-five leading writers have contributed to a campaign book entitled Pleadings for a New Government. Grass's contribution was a partisan poem, Hochhuth's an essay in pseudo economics arguing that while Germany's rich are getting richer, the proletarians are being lulled into impotence by their proliferating cars, "which they can pay for but cannot afford." What's more, declared Hochhuth, Erhard was to blame...
...disagreeable affairs . . ." Pondering this thought in his Georgetown home, Dean Acheson, 72, allowed as how it was not always thus. Perhaps recalling several brushes with Senator Joe McCarthy as well as his Secretary of Stateship during the Korean War, Acheson displayed his precise literary style in a twelve-line poem to the Post's editor. A couplet...