Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was also a kind of poetic symbolism in Ted Kennedy's first real foray into national politics. It was Jack Kennedy's assassination that brought Lyndon Johnson to power. Bobby Kennedy's energetic campaign helped persuade many restive Americans that the old order might, after all, be redeemable. In the dying days of a Democratic Administration, the last of the clan rekindled a beacon of courage and change-one that should certainly brighten his party and the Senate and may yet achieve the full promise of a haunted dynasty...
...planners had predicted, finally living the dreams of untold generations of their ancestors. In orbit around the moon and 230,000 miles farther away from home than any humans had ever before traveled, the Apollo 8 astronauts conveyed impressions of their pioneering adventure with words that at times were poetic. Their telecasts gave earthbound viewers an unforgettable astronaut's-eye view of the moon...
...expressing his ideas, and in pushing them into reality, Low has earned a reputation of being reserved and distant. He is not a humorous man, nor one given to poetic fantasies. Yet last week he was as thrilled as any of his five children by the feat of Apollo 8. "I looked at the moon after Apollo 8 went into orbit," he says. "It looked different...
Ustinov succeeded where others had failed by playing the opera, as he put it, for "what's on the surface." It turned out to be a poetic, elfin romp, somewhat in the spirit of Beni Montresor's enchanting 1966 production for the New York City Opera. Said Ustinov: "Too many directors try to make another Parsifal out of The Magic Flute...
...lyrics were by Tim Mayer--many from his great show--and the arrangements by Ivers. Mayer's songs are wry, delicately structured, and astutely poetic. The same song might fluctuate from near-Brechtian understatement to near-melodramatic astringency...