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Word: poeticizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LONDON NOVELS OF COLIN MaclNNES (CITY OF SPADES, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, MR. LOVE AND JUSTICE). Icy observations and poetic perceptions of the back alleys and subcultures in that pungent city on the Thames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema, Books: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...Marx concocted a "total" theory, a consistent set of symbols, to explain the course of history, and he intended his theory to be swallowed whole. The vision derives much of its poetic force from its unity, although few modern men gulp down the whole brew. Outside the Communist countries, formal conversion to Marxism is now rarer than it was a generation ago. Much Marxist influence is indirect and fragmentary. In some minds, fragments of the Marxist vision coexist-illogically-with Christianity or Freudianism. For most, it provides a rationale for criticizing society as it is, rather than a plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: MARXISM: THE PERSISTENT VISION | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...film actually represents none. One moment Che is a cultural hero; the next he is a messianic psychopath. As for Russia and the CIA, the film makes them worse than villains by reducing them to bystanders who have nothing to do with the central melodrama. The driven, half-poetic half-delusive doctor has become a worldwide legend in the past three years. Though his body was seen and identified, he is still rumored to be alive somewhere in the mountains of South America. If anyone doubts Che's death he has only to look at the celluloid coffin that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Batman in Fatigues | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Bloody Cruelty. History lives in his verse because he has understood in his poetic bones that all history is contemporary history; what is dead in the past is just that, but the living past works in our minds. Thus Andrew Jackson "despite appearances, stands for the gunnery that widened suffrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chameleon Poet | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...fragment was the product of what the poet called "a sleep of the external senses." But she insists that his dreams usually were "disappointingly dull," and suggests that much hard polishing must have gone into the poem after Coleridge woke up. Coleridge generally had chronic difficulty finishing his major poetic and critical works. The last lines of the fragment, moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disquieting Syrup | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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