Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...communion. This idea binds together a sheaf of reflections on the nature, meanings, and ends of painting by TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot (Three Hundred Years of American Painting). Highly personal, aphoristic, poetic, Sight and Insight shuns critical pedantries in art to speak of bigger things-life and death, God and man, the wisdom of children, the power of dreams, love, fate, and the human soul...
...many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...