Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirby makes it. He has almost all of his characters bluster at each other from the moment the show begins. There are many scenes in which he rides roughshod over the poetry of the script. The small insights into character are one of Garcia Lorca's main assets as poet and play-wright, and by throwing them away he hamstrings the whole production. A bit of humor as well as more understanding and less frenetic acting would give the play vastly more verisimilitude, and in consequence make the tragedy more comprehensible...
...have killed the father and brother of the Bridegroom. Torn with passion that can never lawfully be gratified, she runs away with her lover immediately after the wedding. The play marches on through to fulfilment and the threnody at the end with a note of inevitability, as if the poet felt that no one was to blame, but that everything had been ordained by fate...
...poet, he claims to be part of Chinese traditional writing, but his work is predominantly influenced by Ezra Pound, whose phrases and rhythms recur continually in Wang's work. His poetic judgement seems questionable: "Elvis Presley is a greater poet than Carl Sandbag (sic)," he says...
...James Shaw's report that urea is an effective anti-decay agent [Jan. 13] comes as no surprise to those acquainted with the Roman poet Catullus [84-54 B.C.], who, in poems 37 and 39, lashes out at a Spaniard who aspires to be the lover of Catullus' girl and accuses him of keeping his teeth white by rubbing them with urine...
...chance, later denied him, of choosing his peculiar cell. The story of the choice is usually fascinating to the balding businessman who insists on recalling how, as a youth, he nearly ran away to sea, or to the physician who claims to have been, at 16, a poet. It takes an artist to make the story of adolescent crisis fascinating to others. Such an artist is Mario Soldati (The Capri Letters, TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), a busy, boisterous Italian movie director who occasionally cools off with a novel...