Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* Burgess Meredith is an alcoholic poet trying to get back manuscripts he exchanged for drink. Repeat...
Jaunty as ever, up from Flat Rock, N.C., came Poet Carl Sandburg, 85, to recite Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait with Andre Kostelanetz...
...reach specialized audiences, E.P.E. has started a syndicate that commissions articles such as Margaret Mead's recent blast against college marriages, breaks even at a mere 25 acceptances. Current and choice is an E.P.E. piece by David McCord, the famed poet-fundraiser who recently retired after 37 years at Harvard. Sadly surveying "the average alumnus," McCord asks: "Do you think they really know and value and re-examine the heart of a dozen great books? I strongly doubt it. When they learn that Johnny can neither read nor write, do they ever stop to listen to the sound...
...Japan and China were on the verge of war and hardly in the mood for poetry. But the great Greek Poet-Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis chose that year to make a trip to the Orient. There his poetic values came under heavy bombardment. In this transparently autobiographical novel, as slender in plot as it is rich in philosophy, Kazantzakis records the intellectual combat...
Kazantzakis takes a poet's delight in the beauties of the ancient Orient. In Peking, he lovingly explores every crevice of crumbling palaces. "Praised be luxury," he cries, "superfluous luxury, the peacock's plume! That is what civilization is: to feel that luxury is as indispensable as bread." But the Chinese are embarrassed by their past and consider it fit only for tourists. They scoff at Kazantzakis' bourgeois concern for beauty. "I hate beauty because it dries up hearts," a Chinese tells him. "Your heart, so tender in appearance, is dry and cruel, like the hearts...