Word: poetesses
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...Norman were a light-hearted eccentric, and if he hadn't been murdered, this would be what is nauseously known as "a fun book." But Norman is a poet. He masquerades as the translator of a non-existent Egyptian-Greek poetess named Oum Salem. But his poetry, apparently, is known and not so horrendously bad as one might expect. And the poor man really doesn't deserve...
...Wilson for supporting the U.S. in Viet Nam, there came a diversionary coo from his own kitchen. Wife Mary Wilson, best known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, were inducted into the Academy, which includes in its membership author John Hersey, poetess Marianne Moore, and Edward Hopkins, the artist. Edward Albee, playwright, was inducted with Galbraith and Sert at a luncheon...
...iambic trimeter is charming, in a wistful, childish way-like something from the bottom of a young Emily Dickinson's trunk. In this case, the poetess is Jacqueline Kennedy, whose two quatrains, titled Dream, are published in the June McCall's. She wrote them...
Died. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 76, leading Russian poetess for three generations; after a long illness; in Moscow. Bitterly denounced during a Stalinist purge of 1946 as a decadent "half nun and half prostitute," she nevertheless wrote such finely chiseled, romantic and often mystical verse on love and faith that the Kremlin allowed her to publish again in the '50s and granted her the almost unheard-of privilege of a religious funeral though, as reflected in Requiem (1963), she had never forgiven the harsh Stalin era, when "only dead men smiled, glad to be at rest...