Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Joyce's occasional vulgarisms failed to travel well in translation. One familiar Anglo-Saxon phrase, for example, was accompanied by a subtitle that read Mon anus royal Irlandais! Other subtitles, which by necessity were shortened to keep pace with the spoken dialogue, carried little of the poetic fantasy and whimsy of Joyce's writing. Apparently offended more by the crude translations than by the content, some members of the audience cried "Shameful!" "Indecent...
Giraudoux's play needs Miss Singewald. Its concave philosophy -- the rich, destructive, conformist bad guys against the poor, poetic good guys -- wouldn't float in the Dead Sea without a strong focus on the heroine. For example, it all comes right in the second act, as three madwomen (Miss Singewald, Valerie Clark, and Carla Barringer) amicably enter Miss Singewald's basement to plan the elimination of the world's evil men. They attack each other, apologize, criticize, contradict, dare, resolve, shift positions, and conclude as amicably as when they came in. And in the end, the world's evil...
...first one was identified in 1960, scientists have been unable to agree on the nature, or even the size or distance of the mysterious starlike objects. Quasar controversies have so rocked the once stable world of astronomy that California Institute of Technology Astronomer Jesse Greenstein has been driven to poetic expression...
...light-verse forms are as rare as septuplets, and as vulnerable. Latest in the long line of poetic inventions-and, it is to be hoped, not too vulnerable-is the double dactyl, the result of a collaboration of two poet-professors, Anthony Hecht of Bard College and John Hollander of Hunter. According to the rules set forth in Jiggery-Pokery (112 pages; Atheneum; $3.95), all the poems must begin with a double-dactyl nonsense line such as "higgledy-piggledy" or "jiggery-pokery." Thereafter comes a famous name-also double dac tylic-followed by another double dactyl and a line...
What is it about the somber landscapes and meticulously rendered portraits of Andrew Wyeth that makes them so phenomenally popular? The poetic magic of their realism, which not only equals but surpasses the photographic image, some feel. "It is Wyeth's feeling of loneliness that makes people respond-that feeling that exists in every human being at some time in his life," suggested one curator as Wyeth's 223-picture retrospective exhibition arrived at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...