Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time Him was the most futuristic of plays, a theatrical circus aping a carnival world. Cummings' only full-length play is still as exotic and volatile as the brightest contemporary drama. The poet's perceptiveness and wit, conveyed by over 50 characters in 21 scenes, saturates every inch of the Theatre Company of Boston's tiny stage...
...years between, are without parallel either as history or, as he saw them, a distillation of "thirty years of action and advocacy that comprise and express my life-effort." Thanks to a deep sense of the past and a lofty view of the future, Churchill has always been a poet of action, a brilliant interpreter of great events from the British army's last great cavalry charge at Omdurman in 1898 to the final defeat of the Axis powers in 1945. And for all his political pragmatism, Churchill never hesitated to point to the underlying moral of events...
...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
...take over moribund St. Clement's and turn it into a mission church aimed at Broadway, three blocks to the east. In collaboration with Director Wynn Handman, Actors Michael Tolan and Richard Shepard, he also formed the American Place Theater, which provides a platform where such writers as Poet Lowell and Novelists Niccolo Tucci and Philip Roth can experiment with the craft of drama...
Died. Donald Culross Peattie, 66, poet, author and naturalist, who in more than 25 lyrical books (An Almanac for Moderns, A Cup of Sky) gave new voice to Thoreau's idea that man reaches spiritual fulfillment only through contact with nature, saying that "it touches a man that his blood is sea water and his tears are salt, and he who goes in no consciousness of these facts is without a home or any contact with reality"; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...