Word: poeticize
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...wonder that Heckel's two almost-poetic canvasses express less than they should, that their statement of color is raw, that their organization is dubious. The same equanimity is lacking. Only the idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
...Touch of the Poet. With as much poetic license as poetry, the late Eugene O'Neill robbed a bottle-fed innkeeper of his illusions and gave a so-so season its best play...
...your TV reviewer of For Whom the Bell Tolls [March 23]. Bravo to John Frankenheimer for preserving the craftsmanship of Ernest Hemingway, whose use of the spoken word conveys both a poetic simplicity of character and a depth of emotion...
...poetic interpretations of human destiny," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University of Pittsburgh...
MacLeish "has touched the lives of millions with beauty and poetic truth," the citation accompanying the degree said. "In his public career he has exemplified that same high sense of civic responsibility and human dignity which has marked his writing. As librarian of our national Library of Congress, as leader in the creation of UNESCO, he has exercised a profound influence on the intellectual life of our time...