Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Julius Caesar. In the U.S. the problem of proper delivery of the Shakespearean line transcends ethnic background or race. Few, if any, American actors are qualified to speak in iambic pentameter. Lacking sufficient breath control, they pant when they should roar, and jangle the music and authority of poetic rhetoric...
Throughout the talks, Warnke felt that a poetic resonance with the motherland still echoed in the hearts of the Communists. And they related themselves in a strange way with Americans-common people of practical view. "We are alike," they kept saying...
Playwright Pomerance has been scrupulously conscientious about the facts. Even so, The Elephant Man is more than docudrama. It is lofted on poetic wings and nests in the human heart. The production, in the off-Broadway Theater of St. Peter's Church (in Manhattan's Citicorp Building), is done with impeccable taste and graced with skilled key performances that equal or surpass anything to be seen at present in the New York theater. Displaying no cosmetically applied malignancies, Philip Anglim 's Merrick is like some sort of simple, twisted saint...
...innovative theater: superior facilities; more sources of potentially big money, which apart from the University itself include a rich body of alumni, as well as grants from the usual foundations; the presence of students, which Brustein convincingly argues is conducive to creativity; and on some level, perhaps, the poetic justic of being asked to leave the Yale School of Drama and then hitching up to arch-rival Harvard; blah blah blah blah...
...Islamic Marxism, and lecher extraordinaire. Ellello*u continually varies his narrative between the third and the first person--"There comes a time in a man's life," he explains in the midst of crisis, "when he thinks of himself in the third person"--but never varies in his ribald, poetic, heart-driven rhetoric. Revolutionary and demagogue, seducer and saint, political puritan and sexual adventurer, he sees Kush as an extension of himself--a citadel of purity besieged by the persistent corruption of American capitalism and, worse, Western morals. He rejects it all, railing and carping in Updike's brilliant satirization...