Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down the centuries?" The 9,500-word polemic called Khrushchev's meeting "arbitrary, unilateral and illegal," and in the viciousness of its tone helped to widen the already gaping split between the two Red nations. To end the letter on a properly inscrutable note, the Chinese chose a poetic refrain from the Sung Dynasty...
...these stories, Cozzens seems to have dismissed the rebel in favor of a celebration of the structure itself. Human life, bearable at best, is seen as unbearable and detestable when its natural savagery, passion and poetic lunacy are unconstrained by custom or civilizing institution. This view is seldom given a voice in fiction-even in realistic fiction of Cozzens' unfashionable kind. When institutions are matched against idiosyncrasy, writers have a temperamental bias in favor of the private sensibility...
Bouncier than Bach. That poetic arbiter of artistic taste, Apollinaire, promptly dubbed Kupka's work "Orphism," and paired him with the French colorist Robert Delaunay. Although he rejected the association, Kupka churned out whorls of saturated color, dazzling fingerprints of the spectrum. With his paintpots, he set cubism on fire...
...Lucilius was pouring out his satires, Sergius Orata was pouring his considerable fortune into his single passion-the cultivation of the oyster. The ups and downs of that bivalvular mollusk ever since are the subject of Novelist Clark's book-a witty blend of fact, fable and fine poetic nonsense...
...same circles as Bob Dylan and, like him, is a disciple of Woody Guthrie. Only 23, Ochs has put to music most of yesterday's headlines: Too Many Martyrs (about Medgar Evers), Talking Cuban Crisis and even the Automation Song. The songs most likely to last are poetic if heavy protests like Knock on the Door, an indictment of Soviet terror, and Lou Marsh, a ballad about a social worker murdered in Spanish Harlem...