Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play is neither a translation of the original nor well-done modern theatre. Guthrie McClintic uses a plain but forceful set modeled after a Grecian interior, but dresses every character in 1946 evening clothes: the lines are a strange admixture of sonorous, poetic speeches for the high-born--tragic figures in the Aristotelian sense--and lower-level American slang for the vulgar; Anouilh preserves the Greek hours, but transforms it into a single narrator reminiscent of "Our Town...
...Millions (Longmans Green; $3) is valuable equipment. The German-born son of an American newspaperman, Author Harper (White Maneuvers, Military Ski Manual) learned his skiing in Switzerland, where 20% of the people own skis. His latest book flavors ski instruction with a garrulous skimeister's anecdotes, opinions, sudden poetic bursts. With infectious enthusiasm he inveighs against lazy American ski habits (downhill runs only, uphill rides in chair lifts, hot buttered rum in large quantity). Two Harperisms...
When the author of these lines, Ezra Pound, came bounding out of Idaho in 1900, he brought along one of the world's remarkable egos. He also brought a poetic flame, the divining eye of a natural teacher, and a motley personality-part despot, part poet, part pressagent. Clearly, he was in for an interesting time...
...Poetic Justice...
...Poetic justice for Albie arrived in 1931. Wood and company marched into the Stadium with a spotless record and an abundance of confidence, but after sixty minutes of play the Elis were on top by a score of 3 to 0--the lone and determining field goal having been contributed by Mr. Booth...