Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Youthful, but already elegantly disillusioned, Poet-Critic Allen Tate once dedicated a poem to a more zestful fellow poet. Its title was To a Romantic. Its two most significant lines...
...reveals himself best by his pungent use of language. Rather like Nikita Khrushchev, he likes to draw on folk tales and proverbs to contrive devastating metaphors against his opponents. He is also fond of quoting from classical Chinese literature. In a 1959 meeting, he cited a Han Dynasty poet to belabor his colleagues for their laziness and love of luxury: "When one travels in a carriage or sedan chair, the body begins to decay. Women with pearly teeth and false eyebrows are the axes that cut down the body's vitality. Delicious meats and fatty foods...
WHENEVER kings come together," Goethe wrote, "it is always bad news." This week the heads of the six nations of the European Economic Community hope to prove the poet wrong when they meet in the 13th century Hall of Knights in The Hague. The two-day summit meeting could prove of critical importance in determining the future of the Common Market, and indeed of all Europe. Since the Market was created twelve years ago, it has not merely lost momentum but has also shown signs of coming apart...
Besides these definite dropouts, other Laugh-In regulars are being subjected to temptation. Henry Gibson, the poet and mild-mannered minister, has a new record out, a book of poetry due out in January and three offers to star in situation comedies. Alan Sues, who presides as Uncle Al ("the kiddies' pal") and the sports announcer who minces his words, has a book forthcoming and has written a movie ("A silent movie -it's great"). Ruth Buzzi, the hair-nettled nemesis of Arte Johnson's Dirty Old Man, went to Europe to tape a guest appearance...
Frightfully Interesting. Poet John Betjeman, for example, paid tribute to his stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when...