Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ormandy. The Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by extra horns, winds and percussion, and the Temple University Choirs of 250 voices are welded into an instrument of blockbusting power and variety: four brass bands blaze the summons to the Last Judgment, and the woodwinds whisper as Tenor Cesare Valletti sings the poetic Sanctus...
...then a philosophy don at Oxford, nobody seemed overly concerned about whether her fiction writing was good or bad; as with Dr. Johnson's famous walking dog, there was only a happy wonderment that she did it at all. Because her prose was lucid, and sometimes even poetic, it was assumed that she deliberately kept her meanings opaque, and she was credited with a sense of mysticism. Because her characters usually were unbelievably outrageous, she was credited with a gift for satire...
Author Murdoch is at her best when she delves into the Irish temperament, with its prudery, touchiness and vulgarity, and she displays poetic gifts approaching genius when she dwells lovingly on the sights and sounds of Dublin or describes the peculiar quality of Irish rain. But as usual, she comes a cropper with her characters. They are all, it seems, sexually confused, tortured by unexplained feelings of guilt, and totally ineffectual and unbelievable as human beings. An improbable seduction scene, which is the high point of the book, has all the furtive comings and goings but none of the hilarity...
Kazantzakis experienced his spiritual growth in great, poetic conflicts, the same attitude with which he recollects his first childhood memory...
...lilt and beauty of Alfred's language also presents a problem of integration. In the first act there is a certain speechiness, a tendency for dialogue to jump out of context and character for poetic effect. Combined with the painfully sparse movement of the first few scenes, this makes the early part of Hogan's Goat easier to listen to than to watch. By the end of Act I, however, as Quinn spits in Matthew Stanton's face, the action catches up with the language...