Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MINH held on to his little mysteries very skillfully indeed, and to much larger ones as well. The face that he presented to the world was that of an avuncular, slightly shabby poet, yet he was a dedicated, often ruthless Communist for half a century. He impressed most visitors with his gentleness, but no man can hold together a Communist Party for nearly 40 years, as he did, without an iron hand. He seemed fragile as a dried leaf, but he endured privation, prison and grueling pressures, and still survived for nearly eight decades...
...book, Author Jacques Baroche, a poet turned investigator, confirms the legend of French wanderlust; 90% of the French husbands who talked to him admitted being unfaithful. But he finds that another Gallic institution has become oldfashioned: the pace of modern life has caused many a Frenchman to discard his pampered mistress in favor of the quickie...
...grass or aboard knobby limbs of strategically located trees in the arena. They were young. They were more than 100,000 strong. They had come to the Isle of Wight off the English shore at Southampton to witness the first full-fledged public appearance by Singer-Composer-Poet Bob Dylan since he broke his neck in a motorcycle accident in 1966. In the cool evening air, as evident as the sweet odor of marijuana, hung an almost palpable yearning for some sort of transcendent experience...
...political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman Emperor. "Grass," says Schwarz, "is the only great German writer in 700 years to take such a direct part in politics, laying aside the pen in favor...
ALLEN GINSBERG IN AMERICA, by Jane Kramer. Earnest, articulate and somehow despairingly sanguine, Allen Ginsberg has evolved from a minor poet to a major cult figure-a kind of one-man air ferry between bohemian and Brahmin traditions. Wisely, perhaps, Author Kramer concentrates on the life rather than the works...