Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, as in much else during his lifetime, it was hard to dispose of E. E. Cummings easily-or, for that matter, to impress him with the modern world's displeasure. If he was limited as a thinker, Cummings nevertheless spoke in an astonishing range of poetic tones of voice and mastered a wild variety of poetic rhythms-lines that crept, leaped, staggered, paced proudly, turned on a dime, flowed smoothly as a prayer. More than any other poet of his time, he dressed up the few ideas he had in all sorts of outrageous and engaging costumes, cheerfully...
This simple tale is told with extreme sophistication of style. Cameraman George Ancona produces images of poetic loveliness-but the eye is not allowed to linger on the loveliness. The amateur actors are cast with acuity and seduced into expressiveness-but the eye is not allowed to ponder their expressions...
Monstrous Irony. With a flexibility of tone rare among Russian writers and a poetic skill rare anywhere. Sologub blends with Peredonov's downfall a perverse but strangely idyllic love affair between a young woman and a schoolboy. Most of the villagers in the book are little better than Peredonov himself; the only ones who seem radiantly immaculate are the lovers. Clearly, in Sologub's world, this cannot last. Peredonov viciously denounces the pair as depraved, but when he kills a man. his charges against them are branded the lies of a madman. No matter; the damage has been...
...POETIC MODE...
...Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS is experimenting with a new technique in this program, one of a four-part series. The two men ramble around Mac-Leish's farm at Conway, Mass., and talk about anything that comes into their poetic brains-without the aid (or interference) of a network commentator...