Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sisters of Budapest marched for Heroes Square to honor the memory of their men. As they trudged through the rain, some bore flowers, but most carried only thin shoppers' bundles of bread, cabbages, onions. Threading past the wreckage of their city, they chanted the words of Sandor Petofi, poet of Hungary's 1848 revolt: "We shall never be slaves...
...Britons have been nearly deafened ever since by Wilson's roaring. Aping the brusque hyperboles of one of his few idols, George Bernard Shaw, Wilson has gone about insulting both hosts and lecture audiences, damning society for its regressive complacency, whimsically denigrating Shakespeare ("a great poet with the mentality of a female novelist"). Last week self-educated Outsider Wilson tried a new routine by viciously assailing himself. His confession: "I wrote The Outsider with completely false intent. . . It is just a fraud. I dashed it off in three months and hoped that it looked erudite-and I expect...
...Arthur Schnitzler, the film briefly traces the course of ten love affairs--between a prostitute and a soldier, the soldier and a chambermaid, the chambermaid and a student, the student and a married woman, the woman and her husband, the husband and a little cocotte, the cocotte and a poet, the poet and an actress, the actress and a count, and the count and the original prostitute. This merry-go-round of sex is attended by an aloof interlocutor who explains that he represents the audience, and it revolves to the tune of a haunting waltz by Oscar Strauss...
...theory, the director's approach to the play is impressive, largely for its ambition. And it is ambitious, because it demands much from the actors. They must speak Shakespeare's lines with more than usual clarity so that the poet's imagery may work its intended effect on the audience and replace the exterior picture of a modern set. Added to that, of course, are the difficulties which the dimensions of the play itself presents to any group of actors...
...recalled it, Capote flew up from Hollywood to read a selection ("realistic") from his works. The club was perfectly still in its awe as Capote began, "Grass." The poet waited several minutes, then said, "Green grass." The audience was thrilled. Capote caught their fever, "Green grass growing." Rapport was complete, reader and audience were exhausted with the beauty and strength of the poem, but Capote gathered himself for a final burst, "Blades of green grass growing in a meadow...