Word: poeticizing
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...