Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. Transplanting a Southampton belle to the Groves of Academe, America's poet laureate of provincial mores appraises small-town college life for the first time and proposes that even the simplest marriage is really complicated...
Died. Jacques Villon (real name: Gaston Duchamp), 87, French painter and engraver, a Norman notary's son who as a youth took the last name of Vagabond Poet Francois Villon, with his younger brother Marcel Duchamp joined the Cubists in 1911, but won only minor notice until after World War II, when he turned to gayer colors and greater realism, becoming a favorite of U.S. museums; of uremic poisoning; in the Paris suburb, Puteaux...
...Georgian capital of Tiflis (where they found just two statues of Favorite Son Joe Stalin) to Armenia. Some of the events on their itinerary were less than enlightening. In a Tashkent opera house, the six sat yawning through a two-hour program of eulogies for an obscure poet, but managed to salvage a guffaw when a Canadian Communist named Tim Buck stood up to describe how the local hero-who wrote in Uzbek -had given Buck's fellow Canadians "great inspiration fighting imperialists and warmongers...
LANGSTON HUGHES, poet Litt.D...
...games blurs into the hateful Berlin present of landladies, "Germani-cally stupid" language students, and menacing politics, as the Weimar Republic, "oppressive as a headache," clumsily snuffles toward its collapse. Fyodor's trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader wary of Nabokov's incorrigible love of verbal conjuring will notice that whole pages printed as prose conceal rhyme schemes or blank verse and complicated prosodical measures...