Word: poeticize
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This simple tale is told with extreme sophistication of style. Cameraman George Ancona produces images of poetic loveliness-but the eye is not allowed to linger on the loveliness. The amateur actors are cast with acuity and seduced into expressiveness-but the eye is not allowed to ponder their expressions...
Monstrous Irony. With a flexibility of tone rare among Russian writers and a poetic skill rare anywhere. Sologub blends with Peredonov's downfall a perverse but strangely idyllic love affair between a young woman and a schoolboy. Most of the villagers in the book are little better than Peredonov himself; the only ones who seem radiantly immaculate are the lovers. Clearly, in Sologub's world, this cannot last. Peredonov viciously denounces the pair as depraved, but when he kills a man. his charges against them are branded the lies of a madman. No matter; the damage has been...
...POETIC MODE...
...Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS is experimenting with a new technique in this program, one of a four-part series. The two men ramble around Mac-Leish's farm at Conway, Mass., and talk about anything that comes into their poetic brains-without the aid (or interference) of a network commentator...
...founded 75 years ago by Los Angeles' Presbyterian ministers, who gave it a lavish land-grant endowment, and grandly called it "Occidental University." After land values collapsed and enrollment plunged to twelve, Oxy became a "college." It survived a disastrous fire, and by 1905, the year when a poetic 18-year-old named Robinson Jeffers graduated, Oxy was solvent enough to dream of becoming "the Princeton of the West...