Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applaud your Essay, "The Poetic License to Kill" [Feb. 1], but it should have more strongly condemned Norman Mailer's oracular pronouncement that "culture is worth a little risk." There are people who are blind to moral values-just as there are those who are oblivious to aesthetic ones, but both originate from the idea that a human life is important because it cannot be traded for anything...
...poetic license that enabled psychiatrists to save Ezra Pound, on a plea of insanity, from the firing squad...
...seem still to be the only solution." Apparently his words fell on deaf ears, for only three weeks later he was at it again, this time his rage triggered by a letter from a doctor who said college men should keep their feet dry or risk illness. In a poetic temper, he wrote. "The Crimson has alluded before to the specific instance of the walk between the Library and the Union, which--with other paths--one might suppose in their present condition to be licensed highways to the Stillman Infirmary...
...NABOKOV THE NOVELIST has a special affinity with Gogol. They are both obsessed with words, with the curious and beautiful poetic possibilities of their languages. They both love a story for its own sake; they shy away from messages and morals. They twist the literary conventions. Above all, they challenge the imagination. Nabokov treats Gogol lovingly; it makes for a delightful and intelligent opening chapter...
After Tolstoy, Nabokov serves up a pleasant dessert of Chekhov. Chekhov occupies a distant but secure third place in the official ranking. He is neither poetic nor playful, but his wisdom and good taste capture Nabokov's heart. The survey ends with a small but appetite-killing dose of Gorki. Except for a couple of untranslatable modernists (Blok and Bely), Nabokov says, the future of Russian literature lies with the expatriates...