Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awards and prizes take up ten lines of his 32-line listing in Who's Who, and now Poet, Playwright, Professor, Author, Classicist and Critic Thornton Wilder, 68, had another line to add: the first $5,000 National Book Committee prize for literature. No less a fan than Lady Bird Johnson made the presentation at the White House. And she, after refreshing her memory by rereading some of his works, declared him just to her taste. He avoids "a dreary reliance on four-letter words," said the First Lady, and his marching, singing prose makes "the commonplaces of living...
Baal (Mitchell Ryan) is a poet who sees the stars only when he is wallowing in the mud. He is modern, and not quite human. He is really a child of myth and philosophy. His symbolic antecedents are the Biblical false gods of ancient fertility rites and orgiastic sensuality, and the neopagan doctrines of Nietzsche's Dionysian antiChrist. What Brecht conceived of was not so much a free soul as an animal will, ruthlessly, amorally, narcissistically possessed by his creature instincts...
Howard S. Nemerov '41, post and novelist, will be the poet for the PBK ceremonies. Nemerov is presently teaching at Bennington College, and has been appointed professor at Brandeis University. He served recently as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress...
...distinguished holders, starting with John Quincy Adams, have been charged to pursue excellence "in the theory and practice of writing and speaking well, that is, with method, elegance, harmony, dignity and energy." Last week Harvard assigned the chair to methodical, elegant, harmonious, dignified, energetic Robert Stuart Fitzgerald, 54, poet, journalist, anthologist and translator of the classics...
...hopelessly ill. Says Unitarian Jack Mendelsohn, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church: "There are occasions when mercy killing is justified because it is desired by the person who is ill." More cautiously, the Roman Catholic Church follows the principle, poetically and archaically articulated by the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough, that "Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive officiously to keep alive...