Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poetic Approach. Such public recognition is rare for Kahn, whose high reputation is based on only a handful of buildings. Born on the Estonian island of Osel (Saaremaa), he went to the U.S. at the age of five, showed such promise as an artist that he was twice offered scholar ships at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He chose instead to be an architect, and after studying at the University of Pennsylvania, split his time between teaching and designing a few highly original buildings: a community center in Trenton, N.J., a psychiatric hospital in Philadelphia. The scarcity...
...happens to be the old man's legal assistant. The assistant is of course assigned to defend the meat-saw murderess, and after running around in triangles for an hour or so, the script comes at last to the predictable courtroom climax in which an awful lot of poetic justice is noisily done...
...becoming "like people who feed birds in public gardens, and usually have two or three perched on their heads." But Mother scarcely foresaw the strange-feathered notions that would roost inside Graves's head. Out of this intellectual aviary fly de-crested myths, twice-tweaked Bible tales, a poetic cockatoo called the White Goddess, and great whooping cranes of scholarly controversy. As a man who travels "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head," Graves ranges airily from poetry to poltergeists, from mushrooms to Majorca (his expatriate home). Though the form changes-essay, lecture...
...Poetic License. In Richmond, after Truck Driver S. J. Bradbury bought his new license plates and took them out of an envelope, he found a note reading: "Help. I'm being held a prisoner at 500 Spring St.." later learned that the address was where plates were made-the state penitentiary...
...maintained. In all four volumes, Durrell has created a world peopled by extraordinary grotesques; each book is suffused with love of the ancient city and each is rich in pungent, aphoristic comment on man's fate. Novelist Durrell has very nearly brought off a major project, which-for poetic evocation and determined grappling with big themes-has not been duplicated by any postwar writer...