Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enthusiasm: Possession by a god, supernational inspiration, prophetic or poetic ecstasy..." The Oxford Universal Dictionary...
...ANCIENT GREEK DRAMATIST, the spoken word was a new-found tool with which images could be sculpted, ideas persuasively conveyed, and emotions rendered with vivid eloquence; to the visually-oriented modern film-maker, it is a pain in the ass. In movie versions of great poetic dramas, nervous directors often move their cameras too much, nor enough, or at the wrong times, and the result is that visual and verbal elements constantly elbow each other aside, yielding neither great drama nor great film, but a tentative mess with little emotional force of its own. It is highly significant that perhaps...
First identified in the 1960s, the enigmatic, starlike objects called quasars are as baffling today as they were more than a decade ago when Astronomer Jesse Greenstein scribbled his poetic plaint on a Caltech blackboard. What sets quasars apart from most other celestial objects is that the light they emit is shifted drastically toward the red, or low-frequency, end of the spectrum. Just as a train whistle's lowered pitch indicates that it is moving away from the listener, so the quasars' light suggests that they are receding from the earth at tremendous speeds-some approaching...
DIED. Louis Untermeyer, 92, prolific anthologist and arbiter of popular taste in American verse; in Newtown, Conn. A captive of what he called "the poetic ictus," Untermeyer dropped out of a family jewelry business to write poems and later became the editor of more than 50 poetry anthologies, which helped establish such writers as Robert Frost and Amy Lowell. As critic, biographer, satirist and lecturer, Untermeyer helped lead the literary revolt against Victorian gentility and later became one of the most energetic public advocates of the art form he called "an effort to express the inexpressible in terms...
...SENSE, if the whales die we will be all alone. An old fisherman with a poetic soul put it well. "They was t'ousands of the big whales on the coast them times...They whales never hurted we, and we never hurted they...And I'll tell you one quare thing. So long as they was on the fishing grounds along of we, I never was afeard of anything, no, nor never felt lonely neither. But after times, when the whales was all done to death...I'd get a lonely feeling in my belly, like the world...