Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporters were so flabbergasted at the notion of playing a balcony scene with the President of the U.S., a bewhiskered photographer and a snow-thatched poet that the questions that followed were only desultory. Nevertheless, Lyndon insisted on chatting for a while. He spotted the Washington...
Next afternoon, while carrier and brotherhood negotiators were still in the White House trying to take best advantage of their 15-day ironing-out period, the President was in a jubilant mood. He took visiting Photographer Edward Steichen and Poet Carl Sandburg into the Cabinet Room to see some of the "toughest people" operating-men. he said, who could throw about 7,000,000 people out of work...
...Nose for Corpses. Khrushchev displayed the same poet-and-peasant touch in dealing with Mao Tse-tung's latest assault on Moscow's "revision ism." The Chinese, said Nikita, turning ever more violent, are "complete idiots" in espousing Stalinism. "There is a tradition to carry a corpse feet first out of the house so that it will not return. We carried Stalin out this way, and nobody will ever bring him back to us." The Chinese may "like the smell of corpses," he continued, but neither Russia nor the Western powers had the nose for it. "When...
Lorca's dramatic death left him a reputation as a revolutionary-which he was not-and gave rise to a Lorca cult that did him no service by drawing attention away from his works and for cusing it on his life. He was, in fact, a lyric poet of great talent-although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said...
...beret down past his ineffaceably cheerful smile to his ground-hugging overcoat, Eugene Rabinowitch, 63, bears small resemblance to a prophet of doom. He seems much better suited to his other roles: professor of botany and biophysics at the University of Illinois, world authority on photosynthesis, a Russian-born poet who composes in his native language and has translated Pushkin into German...