Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Brazil's famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer designed the chapel 16 years ago for Belo Horizonte (pop. 650,000), he was inspired by French Poet Paul Claudel's statement: "A church is God's hangar on earth." But to Belo Horizonte's Roman Catholic archbishop, Niemeyer's hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino...
...live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which...
...Cummings '15, prominent American poet, will read his poems, and make certain incidental remarks this Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Cummings is the author of Xaipe, The Enormous Room, and many other works...
...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill's trenchant portrait of an alcoholic innkeeper who cannot live up to his illusions...
...first time, it proves to be one of Strauss's most fascinating works. Too static for the stage, it is studded with passages of surpassing orchestral and vocal beauty: the sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal tracery. The performers-notably sopranos Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo, baritones Hans Hotter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau-sing superbly under Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. In its flashing orchestral coloration...