Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two years in the ideological doghouse, Russia's declamatory bard, Evgeny Evtushenko, 31, got back his traveling papers and poetic license, took off for a month's poetry-recital tour of Italy. And who should he find in Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made...
...Thou, not l-lt. Frail and paunchy, with a majestic beard and "penetrating, incorruptible eyes," Buber was once described by Swiss Novelist Hermann Hesse, an eclectic Christian, as "one of the few wise men on earth." Buber's wisdom was reflected in many fields - his poetic translation of the Hebrew Bible into German, his retelling of the long-forgotten legends of the joyous, mystical Hasidim, his vision of a Jewish education for the modern world, his defense of kibbutz socialism and the spiritual meaning of Zionism...
...Tristan, it is conceivable that European history might have turned out differently. As it was, Tristan signaled the birth of a new art form that changed the course of music. His music dramas, substituting daring harmonies and emotionally charged leitmotifs for set-piece arias, marked the end of "poetic" opera, and paved the way for such pioneers as Debussy and Schoenberg...
DEBUSSY: PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (London; 3 LPs). Ernest Ansermet, conductor of 1'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, deftly evokes visions of the Poe-like castle and moon-bright grotto of Debussy's poetic opera. Musically light-textured, the opera is philosophically dark: early death is the destiny of the young lovers, appealingly sung by Dutch Soprano Erna Spoorenberg and French Tenor Camille Maurane...
After a few months in this "Bastille of steel," the child developed a violent temper and symptoms of neurasthenia-whenever she heard a piece of displeasing music, she quietly vomited. But she also developed a precocious passion to become "a genius"-if possible, a poetic genius. In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called...