Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts is the TV premiere of Poet Archibald MacLeish's play, which was written for his hometown's bicentennial celebration last June. It deals with a boy who hates living in Conway and wants to leave town forever. By getting him to examine and evaluate the town's past, MacLeish re-creates the major events of Conway's history...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman...
...diplomatic talents of the canny poet King are as cool as his mile-high capital of Katmandu. He has not only managed to keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce...
...last for seven days and seven nights. Planes bombed Teheran with 17,532 roses-one for every day of the Shah's life. Cannons pounded out a 101-gun salute. The Teheran Symphony Orchestra played a new coronation hymn ("You are the shadow of God"), and unofficial Poet Laureate Lutfali Suratgar read a three-minute ode ("The crown and throne of the King of Kings shone over the world as the sun and the moon shine in the firmament"). Mountaineers planted golden crowns atop the country's 48 highest peaks. Throughout Iran there were 97,000 coronation parties...
Some of the later episodes will center on scientist George Washington Carver, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, musician W.C. Handy, and Frederick Douglass, greatest of all abolitionists...