Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last spring Koch decided to approach another generally ignored group of poetic prospects-the old. He believed that older people have rich and unexpressed fantasy lives. But even Koch feared that the task would prove too difficult when he saw his first class at the American Nursing Home on Manhattan's grimy Lower East Side. There were about 25 students, most of them arriving slowly in wheelchairs and looking, as Koch recalls, "old, sick, tired, uncomfortable." Many were blind or hard of hearing, and some seemed to be asleep or in pain. Recalls Koch: "For four or five weeks...
...minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (Budapest Quartet, Odyssey). Though less well known than their composers' works for orchestra or piano, these string quartets are charmers. The first is as spirited and melodic as one would expect from Mendelssohn. The second is imbued with the blend of impulsiveness and poetic fancy that Schumann alone seemed to possess. The superlative interpretations by the sui generis Budapest Quartet come from tapes of live performances at the Library of Congress in 1959 and 1961 and are released here for the first time...
...play begins with the Messenger (the only character entirely created by Paz) introducing the modern themes and the action of the play. He identifies himself as "a transparent soul," neither male nor female, old nor young. His poetic commentaries are interspersed throughout the action. Bartlett Collins Naylor as the Messenger makes certain we realize it's poetry he's speaking. He accentuates every word, each syllable of "exultation" is distinct...
...ancient Platonic tradition of the philosopher-king, a would-be American ruler read his poetic works yesterday to a small crowd of Harvard students in the Leverett Junior Common Room...
...helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when it tries to be poetic, as when Hudson muses that the sea "has great beauty and mystery, and she is eternal," or when his middle son's day-long ordeal with a giant marlin that gets away magically triggers a reconciliation with...