Word: poetical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Higbie combines world-class scholarship in poetic analysis with a lively interest in music--not a surprising combination since techniques such as rhythm and meter are common to both fields. Higbie began her academic career as a music major at Arizona State University, studying flute and piano...
...that sense, all forms of talk therapy can be considered a Freudian legacy. Even the sex obsession of today's society can be read as evidence that contemporary culture indirectly reflects Freud's deepest concerns. Perhaps W.H. Auden got it right after all in his poetic tribute to the Viennese master, written a few months after Freud's death...
...questions ahead of time," she recalls of a 1969 interview. "But once I traveled to Switzerland and saw him in Montreux, he was whimsical and utterly charming." In the world of ballet, a specialty of Duffy's, Peter Martins was "candid to a fault," while Mikhail Baryshnikov often offered "poetic responses" to her questions. Perhaps Duffy's secret is that she notices and records the variety in this world exceptionally well...
Nebraska author Willa Cather made plowing seem poetic, even sensual. "There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country," she wrote, "where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow, rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness...
...weren't down with that, so now I lay off." He has also left the most extreme, racist gangster rap to the likes of Ice Cube. Instead, he now focuses his energy on what he calls "intelligent hoodlum" material. Quincy Jones says Ice-T's work has "the best poetic quality of any rapper, and the strongest narrative I've ever heard...