Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long before Poet T. S. Eliot expounded his theory of the "auditory imagination," Pioneer Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins used pocket poetry to make "Phoebe Snow" glamorize passenger service on the coal-burning Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Slogans nearly always overload the language and often debase it ("cof-fee-er coffee"). English teachers curse Madison Avenue for institutionalizing bad grammar with such calculated lapses as "us Tareyton smokers" and "like a cigarette should." By contrast, some of history's most enduring slogans were plucked from literature. Winston Churchill's call to "blood, sweat and tears"-boiled down from...
...Winfred Overholser, 72, specialist in criminal psychiatry and longtime superintendent (1937-62) of Washington's St. Elizabeths (mental) Hospital, who believed that the mentally ill are not responsible for their crimes, in 1957 won a point when he persuaded the U.S. Government to drop treason charges against Poet Ezra Pound, testifying that Pound's wartime broadcasts "were the result of incurable insanity"; after a long illness; in Washington...
Placards & Rifle Butts. Politics in the Philippines shows exaggerated hostility too, and Romantic Poet Macapagal finds it difficult to match the flip philippics of his opponents. Already he is swapping invective with the Nacionalistas, although election day is not due until November 1965, and the opposition has yet to select a candidate. Two of the chief contenders for the nomination are former Liberal Party members-Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez and Senate President Ferdinand Marcos-both of whom broke from Diosdado Macapagal after his triumphant election. They are well aware that, until now, not one Philippine President has managed to serve...
Bold & Stuffy. During most of its early years, the Atlantic entrusted its fortunes not to Olympus, but to New England. Born in Boston, it chose a poet, James Russell Lowell, as its first editor; it was published by and for New England's self-centered literary establishment. The magazine served largely to give such 19th century essayists as Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier and Thoreau-some of whom took a hand in the Atlantic's establishment-a literary outlet of their...
Miss McGinley challenges the thesis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, which stridently proclaims that American women have been stunted and twisted in their development by accepting passively the limiting role of housewife. Author McGinley has found time to become a poet of note, but she insists that this is an accident and that her role as a housewife is more satisfying...