Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours," wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. "But the small problems of practical life-things like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara's fictional fate was prophetic. In 1960, after Pasternak himself died...
...thinks of serious types, social historians like Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair. But the Wapshots' chronicler, John Cheever, 52, having updated the U.S. picture, was busy catching up on the Soviets too. In Moscow, at the end of a month-long tour of the Soviet Union, Cheever heard Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 31, recite his verse, after which Evtushenko took Cheever, another visitor, Novelist John Updike, and several pretty comrades off to a country dacha for some tonic research into suburban Soviet vodka parties. Cheever concluded that Evtushenko's lyric performance was "the most exciting thing...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning poet talks about the job of being a housewife. She enjoys it. The author and her husband bought a house...
...poems, like the one by "Beat" Poet Gregory Corso, are full of fury and disgust...
President society and poet, bullets...