Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concert reading of Sophocles' two great tragedies at the Loeb last night was superbly performed. By all means go to hear the readings directed by George Hamlin, and marvel as I did at the skill with which undergraduate voices bring back a Greek tragedian and two modern English poet-translators to an honorable life in Cambridge...
...father led the Irish brigade that fought against the British in the Boer War, was later executed by the British for his part in Ireland's famous Easter Rising of 1916. MacBride's mother was the legendary Maud Gonne, heroine of Ireland's revolt and of Poet W. B. Yeats, who called her "a phoenix in my youth." MacBride spent his own youth bombing British armored cars, commanded the outlaw Irish Republican Army while studying and practicing law in the 1930s. A top Dublin barrister, he later became Ireland's Minister of External Affairs...
...Irene Worth) and at the end of Act II is seduced by her. The seduction scene owes a discernible if unintentional debt to Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More. In that play, Mrs. Goforth, also an enormously wealthy woman, nakedly tempted a poet-saint in her offstage boudoir. From stage center, Miss Alice tempts the lay-brother saint. With her bare-shouldered back to the audience, she whips open her black negligee and nakedly faces Julian. As he drops to his knees before her, she gives three orgiastic cries of triumph. If Worth...
Such scholarship, said Bishop, aimed "not toward the fellow specialist but toward the elegant amateur," will rescue research from irrelevance. As an example of serious trivia, Bishop offered his own Ph.D. thesis, a 365-page treatise on the forgotten plays of 19th century French Critic-Playwright-Poet Jules Lemaitre. "I have often thought of extracting it from the library and burning it," he said, "but I renounced that purpose on realizing that no one has looked at it in 38 years...
Married. Gordon Peter Getty, 31, youngest of Billionaire J. Paul's four children, a sometime composer and poet; and Ann Gilbert, 23, tall, brunette salesgirl whom he met six weeks ago, shortly after he had told a friend he would "marry the next girl he took out more than twice"; in Las Vegas...