Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned Latin. Greek and French, and enough Chinese to translate poetry. He also knocked out his own English version of the first third of Dante's Inferno. At Columbia, where Vaio studied German and Japanese for variety, famed Classicist Gilbert Highet called his translations "beautiful-extraordinarily lively and poetic," gave him an A+ ("something I've done only once before"). After two or three years as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford's University College, Vaio is headed for college teaching...
Like a man given a golden door knob, Viereck attempted to build a mansion to surround his toy. Unhappily, his intellectual, poetic, and dramatic resources sufficed only for a pasteboard imitation of a mansion, a flimsy substitute for a play. That line was one of only four Good Things about a wasted evening...
...truly provocative work well staged by Gene Frankel, The Blacks can be poetic, caustic, slapstick, can startle, puzzle, perturb. And Genet, in going back to the ritual origins of theater as a way of going beyond its modern routine conventions, achieves startling effects. But he pays a pretty steep price for them, either through a self-defeating technique or through an insufficiently mastered one. For, unable to advance through plot, The Blacks can only assault through repetition. True ritual serves well-defined occasions; "ritual'' here is stretched out to meet a varying host of demands. The shocking, never...
...Suzanne Burke. Miss Burke is an extremely fine technician and showed an impressive mastery of the Ravel Piano Concerto, but just such ability makes the woodeness she impressed upon it all the more disappointing and inexcusable. This concerto is poetic, humorous and extravagant, substituting flair for profundity; without great liveliness and feeling (and Miss Burke lacked them) this bit of diversion becomes little but tedium...
...hell, at least Cheever's hell, is ever waiting just around the corner. In The Golden Age, the U.S. "situation-comedy" writer has come to Italy to try to forget that he is one. Somewhat guiltily he tries to create the impression that he is a poet-but poetic justice triumphs. Up to his rented castle comes a delegation headed by the mayor. They have just seen an episode of The Best Family, and they have been moved. Says the mayor: "Oh, we thought, Signore, that you were merely a poet...