Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Loren Corey Eiseley, 69, maverick anthropologist, educator and author (The Immense Journey, Darwin's Century); of cardiac arrest; in Philadelphia. Eiseley taught for 30 years at the University of Pennsylvania, but his poetic writing, which bridged the gap between art and science, won him a wide audience outside the scholarly world. Although reconciled to the fact that "there is but one way into the future: the technological way," Eiseley's lyric musings harkened back to humanity's primal origins and the wisdom in fairy tales. Man's "basic and oldest characteristic," he wrote, is "that...
...upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father, a distinguished liberal jurist during the final reactionary years of imperial Russia, set an example of scholarship and courage...
...think, because, as a result of not taking any intelligent or demanding courses, one could stay up so late and talk so strenuously that the other person, male or female, eventually took on a soulful and appealing look, probably bordering on the catatonic. I also had a number of poetic thoughts about single-sculling, about myself single-sculling, or rather about a character like myself single-sculling (possibly in escape from a doomed, intense relationship), which I filed away in my head for use in a forthcoming novel...
...suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that the lady from Barcelona cannot match...
Kushnick's varied styles, integrated with intricate, often poetic lyrics, evoke a spectrum of emotional responses from the listener. Kushnick says, "Sounds come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and the function of the composer is to put them all together and balance them in order to evoke some response from the listener." In technical terms, he says he deals with the expectations produced by structural formulas ("styles"), always modifying them by meddling with cadences, modulations, harmony and rhythm...