Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text is the second Idyll, one of literature's great love poems, by 3rd century B.C. Greek Poet Theocritus. The piece divides into four moods, as the forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how she became his mistress, and finally explains his desertion and her determination to win him back. Sessions scarcely lets the soprano come up for air. At Louisville, Oklahoma-born Singer Audrey Nossaman needed all her excellent technique-and her strength -for some 40 minutes of music...
Thenceforward, the Holmes house reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
...keeping with its Arabian-Nights locale, the picture has a highly improbable plot about a poet who possesses a shapely daughter but no money and, to judge by his verses, no talent. His rise to prosperity involves, of course, an evil wizard and a prince who runs around the streets of Baghdad incognito. Howard Keel, as the poet, is just entertaining enough to suggest that with even half-decent material he might give a fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately...
...says Jordan's Education Minister Auni Abdel Hadi. Admirers call him another Churchill; others, like one State Department official, consider him "the most dangerous man in the Middle East." "Ben-Gurion is not a full man," says Sheik Farouki, leader of Arab refugees in Jericho. "He is a poet . . . not a man of facts. He wanted to build a new nation by raiding cemeteries and making a people from the bones of history." Says Foreign Minister Sharett: "People call Ben-Gurion an extremist. He is not. He is a radical who advocates all his policies with extremism-even...
Died. Christopher La Farge, 58, novelist (The Sudden Guest) and poet; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Providence...