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Word: poeticizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waxing poetic, Barnsby once said, "Dinny plays like a professional. With every stroke he carves another master-piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fowler, Adams, Gilmore Named Captains for '65 | 3/18/1965 | See Source »

...other poems, "The Body Vigil" and "Im Herbst," although both are rather weak in organization from stanza to stanza, show that Kershner has developed a poetic vocabulary. He speaks again and again of the seasons, of ice, of wind, of worms, of fire, and these images come to define, not merely describe, feelings...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 3/18/1965 | See Source »

...poems, and three undefinable articles. These last are particularly interesting. In passing, however, let me note that some of the poetry is very good, especially the translations by Robert Adler from the Hebrew works of Abraham Shlonsky. I can't speak for their accuracy; but Mr. Adler has constructed poetic lines of terse and powerful English...

Author: By Crutis A. Hessler, | Title: 'Mosaic' | 3/17/1965 | See Source »

...shazam! A great black gap in the consciousness of Simone de Beauvoir is illuminated. You see, Simone, "femininity" is not just some poetic veil of man's invention, woven to trick ladies into washing dishes and minding babies. A woman isn't just a man with a dress hung on him. A woman (and Godard's film saturates an imbeclic title with frightening profundity) is a woman...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: A Woman is a Woman | 3/13/1965 | See Source »

...with his listeners. In small groups, he will expound on some subject for a while, suddenly realize that he is beginning to prattle, and punctuate his monologue with a quick self-deflating dig that endears him to his audience. Answering a question at one informal gathering, he waxed almost poetic at some length about the glories of the Senate, finishing with the words, "and there is no other group of 100 men in the world more powerful than the Senate." Then he looked around, grinned contagiously and said, "Of course there may be a group of twenty-seven...

Author: By Matt Douglass, | Title: Hugh Scott | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

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