Word: poetical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odets' rage and revulsions are wasted: some of his Hollywood villains-including a cynical hatchetman and a ruthless cinemagnate (well played by Paul Mc-Grath and J. Edward Bromberg) are vividly caught or caricatured. Now & then, along with some "poetic" writing that is as unpleasantly conspicuous as a nose ring, a lively crack comes forth. But most of The Big Knife is as unfocused as it is violent; it is full of curses not deep but loud, of intemperate and untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely...
...Informaciones had exhumed the story, music-and mystery-loving Madrilenos were taking their choice of two suggested explanations. The prosaic one insisted that Maria was hanging on to Manuel's last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart and María, now a wrinkled, white-haired 62, felt that there is no such man in the world today...
...Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance of the award, and would, in principle, deny the validity of that objective perception of value on which any civilized society must rest...
...counties of Northern Ireland are overlaid with ancient mysteries and poetic myths. Last week, renewed religious bitterness also hung like a poisonous mist over the lovely loughs and dales...
...were William Vogt, who warned the world in Road to Survival that its growing population was rapidly using up the earth's substance, and Fairfield Osborn who, in Our Plundered Planet, lectured man for destroying the fertility of the land. Poet Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk, lent poetic excitement to his autobiographical account of a worldly young pagan's conversion to Roman Catholicism, in Seven Storey Mountain. And, in a category all its own, there was Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was a continuing bestseller in spite of its statistical dullness...