Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them were quite sure of what they saw. Nevertheless, Whitehead's wares had a wonderful reputation. On a platform and in his parlor, Whitehead's wit and wisdom were displayed most effectively. And when he put his style to it, he could write with crystalline clarity and poetic insight. But "getting me from my books," he once observed, "is not so much dangerous as unlikely...
Clever, opium-puffing Producer Cocteau (his fans call him "the cleverest man alive") has allowed his pipe dreams only a soupcon of surrealist-Freudian flavor. The surreal touch is applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds...
America's poetic dean, Robert Frost, 72, published two books of verse: Steeple Bush and A Masque of Mercy. There were flashes in them both, but Frost's best work seemed behind...
...existence. She never again left her house and garden. Her life became the hundreds & hundreds of poems-many without form but few without magical phrasing-that made her, among other things, a "humorist of agony." Playwright Gardner writes of Emily appreciatively enough, but Eastward in Eden is neither very poetic nor very dramatic, and is often downright dull...
Romantic Heroes. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were romantics, Jeffersonian idealists, enthusiastic, ardent, poetic, hopeful, trusting. They named the tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy. But their men, the soldiers and hunters in the party, were down-to-earth, matter-of-fact characters. They liked to race ponies with the Indians, carouse with their squaws, dance square dances whenever they made camp...