Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient poet Horace said, "Dulcy est desipere in loco...
...family doctors in seeking specialists. But, as he admits, some family doctors pick specialists for their patients on the strength of a Harley Street name plate. It all seems to prove the truth of the deathbed line attributed in 1884 to Playwright Henry James Byron (no kin to the poet): "Everything has an end, except Harley Street...
...Weill renaissance is a strange phenomenon, for in many of his scores he simply echoed himself. Moreover, the lyrics by the late Marxist poet Bertolt Brecht, while brilliant in their own guttersnipe way, carry little of their original meaning for the U.S. in 1958: harsh cynicism can date as easily as gaslight sentimentality. Yet there is in the music-and in Lenya-a quality that defies time. "Threepenny Opera," she says, "will be good a hundred years from now. Corruption and poverty don't go out of fashion...
...landmarks of the pre-World War I era." That is the thesis of Author Roger Shattuck, Fulbright scholar and assistant professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas. In his breathlessly complicated period study, Shattuck takes as true a highly debatable line written in 1913 by Poet Charles Péguy-"The world has changed less since Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years"-and discusses the nature of the change as expressed in French art. Author Shattuck has chosen four French men of the arts to exemplify just how the change took place...
...POET GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918) often sounded like one of his characters, who said: "I found humanity on its last legs, devoted to fetishes, bigoted, barely capable of distinguishing good from evil-and I shall leave it intelligent, enlightened, regenerated, knowing there is neither good nor evil nor God nor Devil nor spirit nor matter in distinct separate-ness." Apollinaire's thoughts, attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need...