Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NAUSICAA (Composers Recordings Inc.). This modern pastiche of Homer by Poet Robert Graves and Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks suffers only the vice of murkiness: Nausicaa becomes Penelope, Odysseus becomes Aethon, the chorus sings in Greek to the soloists' English, and the recording omits long, crucial passages. But the music is electric, the myth is fey and absorbing, and the performance-recorded live from the opera's premiere at the 1961 Athens Festival-is as warm and engaging as a Greek night...
DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guin ness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thom as, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse and fierce, hurting battles with his wife...
...years Britain has been growing lopsided. As lingering depression shuttered the mills and shipyards of Scotland and the industrial north, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families drifted into southeast England. New industries sprang up, and a blotchy urban sprawl transformed the home counties surrounding London into Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telephone poles and tin." Greater London is being choked by its population explosion; its birth rate is six times that of the rest of the country. Traffic is so congested in the city that when a magazine staged a race between...
With this epigram from the unfashionable poet Rudyard Kipling carved in its marble-slathered lobby, the U.S.'s newest museum throws down an elegant gauntlet at the feet of all that has been fashionable in recent art. The challenger is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, 52, who considers abstract art to be a social menace; the challenge is his new Gallery of Modern Art, which assumes "modern," in the art sense, to mean from 1800 until not too lately. After a series of quite fashionable previews-for the press, social, professional and charity cliques-the long-abuilding museum last...
When the Roman poet Ovid wrote this supplication, "the present time" was roughly the time of Christ, when it was far easier to think of gods becoming men, beasts or monsters and to see the palpable world as the creature of unseen magical forces...