Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that an elephant might be based on a mouse. All that is left is a smear. Candy (Ewa Aulin), a teeny-bopper who seems to be mentally retarded, is molested by a series of dirty old men in odd clothing. They include a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a poet (Richard Burton), a guru (Marlon Brando), a Minuteman general (Walter Matthau), a surgeon (James Coburn), and Candy's uncle and father-both played by John Astin. The attacks take place on a pool table and in a moving truck, a paratroop plane, a grand piano, a men's room...
...scenario calls for a quiet death among concerned chipmunks," Thomas Merton once wrote a friend after surviving major surgery, "and I'd like it that way." He did not get his wish. On the very day that Karl Barth lay dying in Basel, the 53-year-old Trappist poet-priest was attending an ecumenical conference of Roman Catholic and non-Christian monks in suburban Bangkok. Returning to his bungalow to rest during the hot afternoon, he reached out to adjust an electric fan and apparently touched an exposed wire. He was instantly electrocuted...
From New Delhi, he wrote of long meetings with the Dalai Lama in the Himalayan foothills and of an eight-day retreat among the exiled Tibetan monks. One lama courteously composed a poem celebrating their meeting, and Poet Merton returned the compliment. There was an added serenity in his final letter to the Center. "In my contacts with these new friends, I also feel a consolation in my own faith in Christ and his in dwelling presence," wrote Merton. "I hope and believe he may be present in the hearts...
Nolan redefines and enlarges Lowell's vision of Baudelaire's inspiration. His paintings are not illustrations for Baudelaire but for specific lines of the Lowell text. Nolan's and Lowell's concentration on Baudelaire seems explainable in terms of sympathy with the French poet's sense of frustration, search for meaning, and social concern...
NOLAN confronts us with startling images from this lurid and abortive voyage. His illustrations suggest monotypes -- brilliant rag strokes of detail. The reader -- hypocrite, mirror-image of the poet -- peers from another of Nolan's paintings. Only the essential features of the face are defined -- in heavy skeletal patterns. The obscure background overcomes the face's body. We are forced to recognize the identity of the face, the soul. "Its BOREDOM.... This obscene beast chain-smokes yawning for the guillotine--you--hypocrite Reader--my double--my brother...