Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...
...receive prevailing WPA wages, averaging $93 a month in northern cities, $85 elsewhere. Now so highly organized that its officials boast that in a week it can gather the material for a guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused a job. In St. Louis radical Novelist Jack Conroy (The Disinherited) went on strike. Along with such editorial problems as deciding how much space strikes should take up in community histories, directors were also handicapped...
MacNeice went to Oxford (1926-30), is a lyric poet of the English tradition. In his collected Poems (1926-37) he publishes a number of the most engaging, and a few of the excellent poems of the times...
...countrified Celt as well as a citified Englander, Poet MacNeice spends many of his poems in trying to figure how a contemporary European can seriously find any purpose in modern country life, any coherence in modern city life. In the beautiful and economically hopeless rural districts...
Playing no favorites, Poet MacNeice represents the activities of his molelike rubes and his lizard-like slickers as equally unsatisfactory. He conveys the impression, nevertheless, that Something is watching both like a cat. What that Something is his poems fail to signify-except that it is deadly to human moles and lizards. Bagpipe Music gives a crazy rehearsal of things done in town and country, raises echoes that such things will not do. For townees the echo runs...