Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet Logofax would form a club...
...tossed onto scrap heaps. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and replaced by new ones with an economic life expectancy of only 50 years. Waste, outrageous waste, cry the critics-and by no means only foreign critics. U.S. social commentators loudly deplore the "waste makers," as do politicians and poets. "In America everything goes to waste," complains Poet Karl Shapiro. "Waste in the States is the national industry." "I regard waste as the continuing enemy of our society," Lyndon Johnson has warned...
...control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier figure: "One thinks when listening to Becaud of a powerful motor turning at its maximum, and the most curious thing about this machine running full speed is that it is driven by a poet...
...Eugene Boudin, son of a sailor, the choice was simple: either go to sea or paint it. Boudin opted for the artist's path, and the world has been in his debt ever since. The poet Baudelaire was astounded. From Boudin's paintings, he wrote, it was possible to "guess the season, the hour and the wind." To Camille Corot, he was "the king of the skies." And in the 20th century, Georges Braque, looking back, said flatly: "Boudin invented the seashore...
...guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone who saw this accident report to the local authorities?" Hendra reminisces about one of his ancestors, a 16th century poet known as "the Scarlet Pimp,"" who composed the immortal ballad beginning, "Foftly, foftly, blowf the gale,/ Upon my miftreff bofom...