Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold Stokowski, who does things in the grandiose manner, signed a three-year contract to direct the Hollywood Bowl's musical activities and conduct its summer concerts. Said starry-eyed Stokowski: "The poetic setting of the Bowl under the stars . . . the poetry of the night and the stars go together. I love to conduct . . . where so many people can enjoy music in the open air beneath the stars...
...himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...
...British move into Greece was political rather than military. Greece has long been a British sphere of influence and London was anxious to keep it so after the war. There was poetic justice in the return of the British for the redemption of Greece. In 1941 they had risked Egypt to aid the Greeks, lost 15,000 men in a hopeless, 24-day retreat. But the Greeks, who also fought bravely, have starved and died for three years. Resentment against British political policies has grown. Whether food and medicine would win them back was still uncertain...
When the Germans conquered the Land, Srebnitz left school to join Hlaka's guerrilla band on the Mountain. The Land is presumably Greece but it might be any land fighting for its liberty. The men of the Mountain are not individuals but figures from a poetic legend. Otherwise Irish Lord Dunsany's latest invention is pure adventure story...
...with strangers, responsive among friends, dead at 39 of consumption, Brown was a far better writer than later generations admitted. He filled his novels with seductions, crimes, violence and a robust 18th-Century sentiment, as well as the ghostly trappings of Gothic romances. But the novels "were singularly original, poetic and impressive," and Brown "added a third dimension to the Gothic novel; he suffused his mechanical devices with true horrors of the mind. . . . He was a precursor, in more than one respect, of Poe, Melville, Hawthorne and Henry James. Brown represented, in other words, the native American wild stock that...