Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hanson. Said he: "I hesitate to think of what the effect of music upon the next generation will be if the present school of 'hot jazz' continues to develop unabated. It should provide an increasing number of patients for [psychiatric] . . . hospitals, and it is, therefore, only poetic justice that musical therapeutics should develop at least to the point where music serves as an antidote for itself...
Most readers will find much of the strictly scientific exposition difficult where not unintelligible, some of the flights into pure metaphysical speculation farfetched, perfervid. But there are passages of rare poetic storytelling quality, as in the chapter on "The Amistad Mutiny," which recreates a remarkable bit of illicit slave-trade history, in which Gibbs's father, along with the aged but still eloquent John Quincy Adams, played a leading role...
...Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). Toscanini reads a poetic sample of one of the few younger U.S. composers with something...
...best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections of a poetic tragedy." (Victor thought it very dull.) At 18 Hugo was famous...
Spender, in 1942, is a poetical miniature of the English literary Left-a small man wearing a large suit of clothes. He subscribes to the great English poetic tradition that a poet is a being superior to his fellows in wisdom, human tenderness, beauty of perception, the power of inspiring in others a love of the good. To him the maintenance of this tradition is a spiritual necessity. But also he is bound by the need to live the life of a wide-awake modern man. Spender tries hard to reconcile these two modes of life. His failure...