Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among them: U.S. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mexican Communist Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, British Poet and Art Critic Sir Herbert Read and, from Cambodia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk's son, Prince Ranariddh...
...world is too much with us," wrote William Wordsworth in a famous sonnet, and Russell Baker echoes the poet three times a week in the New York Times. A funny place to do it, in a paper full of world news. But to Humorist Baker, 42, even a fraction of all the news that's fit to print is far too much. "The law of life," he writes, "is that there is almost always less happening than meets...
...University, for example, he remembers being confronted by the cult of failure that imbued most of his fellow students. They felt that while sex was a natural and admirable passion, a hunger for worldly success was ignoble. For a star student who wanted to be a great and famous poet, that attitude quite naturally caused some troubling guilt feelings...
...sort came anyway. As a fellowship winner, Podhoretz attended Clare College at Cambridge University, had a piece of criticism published in F. R. Leavis' formidable literary organ, Scrutiny, and was immediately initiated into a privileged class. Although he knew by then that he would never be a poet, he was flattered to be "magically transformed overnight from a Brooklyn 'barbarian' into 'one of the young gentlemen from America...
...keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...