Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...berries picked in the noonday heat. Author Lee knows that his book has an almost archaic aspect. Not until the end do autos appear in the valley, and one uncle takes on the stature of a hero by becoming a bus driver. The language is always charming and often poetic, but what is most remarkable about these childhood memoirs is the total lack of sentimentality. The Edge of Day is a rarity among books: a simple story that derives its glow from the beauty of common truth uncommonly stated...
...Daisy is an attempt at spontaneous movie making and does not pretend to be anything else. You attempt to compare it to a home movie because the narrator speaks for the characters; yet even your obvious attempt to make Kerouac's prose seem humorous cannot dim its haunting poetic quality...