Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that same time last week, out on a rolling estate at McLean. Va., Attorney General and Mrs. Robert Kennedy were having a luncheon in honor of Poet Robert Frost. The guest list was an exclusive nine people, and the bright talk ranged from Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven to Astronaut John Glenn's identity with God in outer space...
...peaceably to the Conservatives? Last week Colombia's voters reaffirmed the truce by electing as Lleras' successor. Conservative Guillermo León Valencia, 53, with an overwhelming 1,643,020 votes. Valencia is a far different politician from the patient, persuasive Lleras. A fiery orator, flowery poet and crack pistol shot, he once stood up to a dictator's besieging troops armed with a .32 revolver, and by bluster and reputation he drove the soldiers away. Anti-Communist and pro-U.S., he puts his faith in the Alliance for Progress and in his own popularity among...
...believe that poetry should be approached on its own terms. As Commager remarks: "The ideas work not merely 'with' but 'in' and 'through' Horace's specific language. If we change any element of his language a different idea remains--or no idea at all. To speak of a lyric poet's 'message' is meaningless, except in terms of the forms in which he creates...
...become popular among distinctly unjocose people. In Clock Without Hands, Novelist Carson McCullers repeatedly alludes to livingness-meaning, as Teacher Foote sees it, "the hum of hot blood, the buzz, the throb of passion," which is perhaps also "felt sappily by flowers and vegetables." Thingness, as used by Poet John Ciardi, "the sober Saul of modern letters," apparently connotes some ineffable quality of poetic words when uttered by a poet. When Novelist J. D. Salinger's Franny cries her eyes out in a ladies' room (Is she pregnant, hearing God, or what?), she observes the room...
...United Family, last on the agenda at Agassiz, is a wonderful play by France's finest poet, Jacques Prevert. It has a subtlety underneath its blatant satire, and John Beck, who directed it for horselaughs, wasn't fully successful. But his staging was fast and broad, and he deployed eight expressive actors, including Sam Abbott, Miss Prutting, Paul Schmidt, Fran Blakeslee and the ubiquitous Mills...