Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold Dahl was an air-age soldier of fortune with a quiet, ingratiating manner, the face of an unappreciated minor poet-and an astonishing talent for oscillating rapidly between the frying pan and the fire, meanwhile eating well and never getting badly burned. He was also a good pilot-and a very lucky...
...power with words and liked to exhibit it. The Eliot Drama Group apparently knows it, too, for the greatest virtue of their production, which is successful on almost every count, lies in their ability to speak with clarity and precision. Their presentation is a fine tribute to Shakespeare, the poet...
...Manhattan, tweedy Poet W. H. Auden, 48, rose to thank the nation's publishers and bookdealers for bestowing a National Book Award on his sacred and profane volume, The Shield of Achilles. Said he: "What, in the name of profit, dear foolish publishers, kind unworldly booksellers, am I doing here? . . . You will never make enough [out of me] to pay the wages of one incompetent typist . . . For your award . . . my thanks; for the dollars I shall never bring you, my apologies...
...Bandeirantes could unquestionably be considered a modern masterpiece. The confusion in which the play wallows is due mostly to the language in which it was written. That language is English to be sure, but it is a political English filled with wild, though sometimes provocative images. I suppose the poet must have exercised some control over his imagery, and that he must have wanted to squeeze some concentrated extract of meaning out of his story when he decided to employ the type of speech he used. But his efforts were not notably apparent. A single hearing left me, at least...
...Berlin Stories-starvation side by side with luxury, Nazi and Communist bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue...