Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes: 'People of the mountains...
...Leon Henderson, who was at the policy-making level in the U.S. Government, vigorously helped promote the profit-making atmosphere in which Leo Cherne's Institute has thrived. Leon's job with Leo looked like something more than a profitable hookup for the two-it looked like poetic justice...
...appealing cast of minor eccentrics. She would never admit that she had married Edmund Montgomery, bastard of a Scottish baron, lifelong searcher for the mainspring of life in the pullulations of protoplasm. All his life he called her "Miss Ney." In his silence, his patience, his courage, his poetic nobility, he emerges as almost a saint. Crescentia ("Cencie") Simath, the maidservant, was apparently paralyzed with love for Edmund and endured, if possible, even more than he did. Lorne, the son, was a tragic, horrifying product of idealism crossed with rampant mother love...
Directly following this, Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloc" Ballet was heard. The music, full of "poetic imagination," instrumental color, exceedingly clever orchestration, was competently enough performed. But perhaps it was not up to the rest of the program in some ways. The dynamics were good, but at times overdone. The effect was complete, but at the same time there were too many breaks, the continuity not always intact...
...uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily discovering new wonders of poetic sensitivity and insight in his tired performances. He waited two months after the performance of Shostakovitch's fan-fared Seventh to turn out one of the most magnificently scathing reviews in the history of American criticism, but when Toscanini last fall revived the music to "Romeo and Juliet" by Berlioz...