Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enchanted Forest. For that generation, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was a shock-the bitter, bracing shock of recognition. Prufrock was simply the first modern poem. It abandoned romantic oratory for conversational speech, threw away stately "poetic" meters for the subtle syncopated rhythms of the jazz age, brought poetry out of the misty enchanted forest into the gritty reality of the modern city...
JOAN BAEZ 5 (Vanguard). Baez is still soaring high. She sings Villa-Lobos alongside Phil Ochs, a poem by Lord Byron, verses by Bob Dylan, old English ballads and the new Birmingham Sunday...
Versatile Peter Ustinov sent a hand-drawn cartoon of his family, Director Elia Kazan a hard-cover copy of his late wife's poem in honor of President Kennedy, and Burl Ives went so far as to enclose with his card a sermon by the Dean of Duke University Chapel, entitled "Bethlehem and Bedlam." But along with all the frankincense and myrrh was an ever increasing band of Scrooges-Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and Earl Warren among them -who continued to cry humbug to the greeting game and sent no cards...
...ever, her inevitable business. Explore her infinity on your own, put your own ear to her breast, then hear her internal rumblings. You must slow yourself down, not rush through on Gray-Line sightseeing tours, inundated by some puerile spiel. "Man," wrote Jon Hendricks in a jazz poem to Manhattan, "if you can't make it in N.Y. City you can't make it nowhere .... I wrote the shortest jazz poem you ever heard. Nothin' 'bout huggin' and kissin'; one word: Listen...
Wherever you stand in Manhattan you stand within blocks of famous persons, famous places, muggings, weird characters, impossible situations: all optional. New York has often been compared to a poem, with its vivid music (of inner machinery) and insane compression (of all tongues, races, lives). As a poem, New York's rhythms are comprehensible to 9 million; but her full meaning is forever elusive...