Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poet André Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur . . " (TIME, Dec. 14) is not unique in his obsession for green...
Like many a Russian, Rachmaninoff had been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
Chekhov enthusiasts found Biographer Toumanova's summation of their hero a little on the faint side: "Chekhov is a great artist using a small canvas, a poet of the little." Princess Toumanova regards him as the mouthpiece of "the superfluous man," as the sad "voice of twilight Russia." "He lived among the inactive, talkative, dissatisfied intelligentsia, which formed the background of his literary efforts and, as a true physician who diagnoses the disease, he observed stagnation and inertia and gave us a perfect picture of what he saw around him." But that was the later Chekhov. In his early...
When that blew up, she landed a job as secretary to Isadora Duncan. With aging Isadora and her young husband Sergei Essenine, Russian poet, she flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...
...lately-deceased Catholics who might fit Father Feeney's specifications, and whose friends could be counted upon to push their saintly causes, the best known would be Wartime Chaplain Rev. Francis P. Duffy, Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) and Football Coach Knute Rockne. All are known to have lived impeccable Catholic lives; two met violent deaths. But no instance has yet been publicized of miracles having been performed through their intercession...