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Word: poeticizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biblical Weather Report Sir: In his attempt to update the Bible [Oct. 23] so that it reads like today's newspaper in a common-denominator prose, Translator Speiser sacrifices vision along with poetic diction. The opening lines of Genesis sound like a weather report on Hurricane Hilda instead of an image or symbol of the active power of God brooding over dumb creation and awakening a response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 1964 | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...Housewifery is not a profession. Does one need an education to do a good job making beds? And is it any more "noble" to bake a cake than to teach a child to read? Not all members of the profession have the intellectual sanctuary of a typewriter and a poetic mind to retire to when the emotional strain of being mentally unemployed becomes too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...paintings. His fastback hair is peroxide blond, his eyes peep owlishly through black spectacles, and occasionally he sports a gold-lamé dinner jacket. Yorkshire-born Hockney's first one-man show in Manhattan was a sellout when it opened last week. His painting, a poetic blend of childish innocence and sophisticated whimsicality, is often dominated by an edgy displacement of figures in space. His bite is sharp in 16 etchings for The Rake's Progress, a series on his adventures in Manhattan, inspired by Hogarth's classic. California Art Collector, explains Hockney, combines quaintness and caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Britannia's New Wave | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...Nobody," writes Miss McGinley, "has so far received a Pulitzer Prize for contriving a poetic boiled custard, in spite of the fact (which I know from experience) that it is a feat far less easy to perform than writing a ballade." Her own recipe for boiled custard appears on page 269. Some other hints for the elegant execution of housewifery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: A Woman's Place | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...Democratic National Committee's political commercial is poetic, not vicious. It speaks eloquently on issues that transcend politics: survival, beauty, and the survival of beauty. In an ugly political campaign, it reminds a hypnotized people of the real cost of living. RICHARD E. TURNER Nacogdoches, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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