Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Russian society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not quite so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
LYRICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, by Albert Camus. Camus was a sensualist and humanist who found inspiration on the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. His great poetic perception flavors this new collection of early essays, which are surprisingly mystical and serene...
Poster Image. In coastal Khanh Hoa province, the self-defenders proved good enough to rouse the Viet Cong to print a poetic broadside...
...good; mischievous, mercurial and iconoclastic. After they met, and competed, at both Hotchkiss and Yale, they performed the extraordinary feat of raising $85,675 to launch their magazine. It was Hadden who developed TIME style, in its early incarnation an extraordinary idiom, at once economical, vivid, infuriating and occasionally poetic. While Luce managed the business end, Hadden edited, with a carefully annotated translation of Homer's Iliad by his side; in the back cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward...
...intellectual Parisian humanist. He strove with a stoiclucidity to reaffirm man's nobility in a warring age that seemed to defy that nobility. Actually, he was also a sensualist, a "Black Romantic" who found ecstatic revelations on the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. This poetic sensualism flavors Lyrical and Critical Essays, now collected and published for the first time in English...