Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face was obviously not going to be her fortune, but she had a magnificent body, and within two years of her debut the fact was proclaimed in the Manhattan press, which pronounced her the "ideal woman." Overnight, Belle became The Body of her generation. Reporters wrote paeans to her "poetic legs." Barnum offered her $1,000 a week to star in one of his sideshows. Diamond Jim Brady squired her about. Teddy Roosevelt came to her flat with friends and enjoyed himself so thoroughly that he sent Belle a full set of Haviland china in appreciation...
...problem was quite different in Elizabethan times, since actresses were interdicted and both roles were taken by young boys. Miss McKenna is able to convey a zestful boyishness without ever losing her innate womanliness. And more than any one else in the cast, she pays attention to the poetic qualities of the text (though on opening night she sometimes lowered her voice to the brink of inaudibility...
Thus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saluted the new nation across the seas. In the century and a half since then, Americans have become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter. Dominican Raymond Leopold Bruckberger's love for the U.S. is not blind: in the last decade, the French priest, author (One Sky to Share), artist and Resistance hero, has traveled all over the U.S. Inevitably, some of what he has to say has been said before, but rarely has it been said more...
...best setting for it, however, would be the magnificent shadowed light of an Early Gothic Church. The other works in the gallery include another fine Blue Period Picasso, four fine drawings by Matisse of Mlle. Roudchenko, and a splendid drawing by Seurat. In this last-mentioned work the poetic simplicity of Seurat's technique, form and composition are at their lyrical best: it is a distinguished addition to the several other fine Seurat drawings which the Fogg owns in its extensive 19th century French drawings collection...
...reason for the general excellence probably lies in the fact that the text does not require the players to convey the music of poetic lines--an area in which the company as a whole is weak. This is not to say that the writing in the play lacks interest; far from it. The text is a rich mine of various kinds of lower-class Elizabethan speech, including laughable treatments of French and Welsh dialects. It is filled with captivating puns, doubles ententes, and novel images; and it constitutes a veritable dictionary of original invectives, insults, and expletives...