Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Case, Poetic. Bruinsma himself doubts that there is much relation between the Coffin Text teachings and Judaic morality. But scholars find a delight all its own in the limpid poetry contained in the spells, which suggests something of the sophistication and richness of Egyptian theology. Even Ecclesiastes has little to match the curious beauty of Coffin Text No. 269: "I made the four winds that every man might breathe thereof like his fellow in his time. I made the great inundation that the poor man might have rights like the nobles. I made every man like his fellow...
Died. Bruno Walter (born Bruno Walter Schlesinger), 85, peerless, poetic interpreter of romantic music, a Berlin-born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and-following the rise of Hitler-to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home...
Author Durrell's thesis is that everyone inevitably weaves his own destiny: "We live by a very exacting kind of poetic logic-since we get exactly what we ask for, no more, and no less." But only in the threatening dark of the labyrinth does man achieve the enlightenment with which to perceive his own fate...
Judging from the poetic language of the pamphlet, one might even surmise that the explosion is quite beautiful. Immediately following the detonation, a fireball forms--a "large, swiftly expanding sphere of hot gases, producing brilliant light and intense heat...." Something like a display of aurora borealis...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams, makes a tethered lizard a symbol of the condition of man, while above it, on a Mexican veranda, Bette Davis, Patrick O'Neal and Margaret Leighton tug with poetic fury at fetters of mind, body and spirit...