Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands of 70 auto windshield scrapers showing him on skates and saying "McCarthy Cuts the Ice"). Big names rallied to him. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who as chairman of the Americans for Dem ocratic Action helped throw the group's endorsement to McCarthy, turned up. So did Poet Robert Lowell, who told listeners that the Republicans offered no alternative because "they cannot sink and they will not swim." Actors Robert Ryan and Tony Randall took to the stump, but Paul Newman's appearances had to be circumscribed for fear of a riot among Hampshirewomen...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...
CHOPIN: THE NOCTURNES (RCA Victor; 2 LPs). German Poet Heinrich Heine once wrote about Chopin that his "fame is aristocratic, it is perfumed with the approval of good society, it is as distinguished as his person." The same might be said of Artur Rubinstein, Chopin's fellow Pole. Taking the long-lined melodies of the 19 night pieces, Rubinstein floats them on their shifting chromatic undercurrents in a most elegant and assured manner, never falling into sentimentality...
...Poet Evtushenko is right about the picture, but the women of the world need not take his warning to heart...
...since Euripides was hounded out of Athens for the Hellenic equivalent of sedition have the poets of a nation been so busy on all fronts preaching dissent to national policy. Last week even the cultural coziness of the National Book Awards presentations in Manhattan was chilled by a poet's jeremiad against U.S. involvement in Viet...