Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mike Todd Jr., son of Liz's third husband, and blonde Actress Annette Cash, his current steady. Wrote Columnist Walter Winchell, on hand to cover the event: "He stopped the show colder than a faithless wife's heart." Never one to toe the party line, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 28 (TIME cover, April 13), stomped all over it with dancing slippers. To the cultural commissars who have banned rock 'n' roll and the twist, Evtushenko wrote in Literaturnaya Gazeta: "Let everybody dance the way he likes." To the Moiseyev dancers, who parodied rock...
Here Nabokov becomes more poet than stuntman; the elegy Pale Fire has a lean grace and clarity of emotion worthy of a writer who is ranked, as Shade is supposed to be, only a step behind Robert Frost...
...book's core is a long, sober meditation in rhymed couplets by the late and highly respected poet John Shade...
...dense, many-layered rind of preface, commentary and index, compiled by a scholarly ass named Charles Kinbote. This obtuse fellow imagines himself to have been a great friend of Shade's. Actually, as is absurdly and delightfully evident after a few pages, Kinbote knew the old poet for only a few months, and their friendship consisted of bare toleration on Shade's side...
...Kinbote really an ex-king? Evidence points several ways, and the notes end, slyly, with Kinbote musing that he might write a play with three main characters: "a lunatic who intends to kill an imaginary king, another lunatic who imagines himself to be that king, and a distinguished old poet who perishes in the clash between two figments." Kinbote may, indeed, be hiding from his keepers...