Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfred Noyes, 77, right-bank English poet (The Highwayman), critic (Voltaire), philosopher ("God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies"), novelist (The Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought...
...literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years ago who wrote 'The dawn is red,' he's now hailed as a true Communist progressive...
...Poet George Faludi confessed to the Russians that he had been recruited as an American spy by General Edgar Allan Poe, Colonel Walt Whitman and Captain Henry Thoreau. Thrown into solitary, he composed a whole sequence of poems in his mind. Later he smuggled these poems out of prison by having released prisoners memorize twelve lines at a time and then recite them on a visit to his wife...
...lures in passing bucks with a wave of her crimson scarf, symbolizing her occult powers. After a postman spends the night, the husband rebels; the wife silences him by strangling him with her scarf. At Spoleto last week, the postman rang the bell twice-both as to libretto (by Poet Harry Duncan) and music. Composer Hoiby's score was deft, dramatic, highly descriptive, reminiscent of Gian Carlo Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman-lover fell into a charmed sleep by the fire...
...objectives that commend themselves to the spirit." On a budget now running $315,000 a year, Operation Serenity restores old churches, houses and forts, rediscovers folklore and old music: Puerto Rico bursts with pride at being the home of such artists as Cellist Casals and the late Nobel Prizewinning Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. But Serenity has not eased the pull on Bootstrap. Muñoz finally came around to the belief that "we must live like angels and produce like the devil...