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Franklin Roosevelt possessed a gentleman farmer's scholarly and poetic approach to land and growing things. He studied conservation, raised

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: To See the Stars Again | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

Such weapons were needed to combat the sudden surge of Soviet expansion as World War II drew to a close. Angleton hardly seemed suited for the part: he aspired to be a poet, and his friend E.E. Cummings called him a "miracle of momentous complexity." But Angleton's poetic imagination proved useful indeed when he was put in charge of counterintelligence for the wartime OSS in Italy. Recruiting German and Italian agents, he performed spectacularly. He unearthed the secret correspondence between Hitler and Mussolini, the Soviet instructions to the Italian Communist Party for supporting the Red uprising in Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives of Luger and Stiletto | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

THIS IS THE ARTISTIC BEAUTY of Hazzard's style; an elegant and controlled prose that, carefully dispassionate and particular, nevertheless evokes an atmosphere of intense emotion. The writing is clean, sharp, and brilliantly metaphorical, with a tendency toward hesitation and qualification, a beautiful refinement of diction that results in poetic prose...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Passengers in Transit | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

David Moore in the title role is the crown jewel in this showcase of performances. In his first dinnertable scene, Moore displays a seemingly effortless command of MacLeish's verse. He makes the most poetic images sound as natural as daily conversations, vivifying their beauty. Even in his brief moments of arrogance and self-congratulation, Moore's J.B. is a charmer, firmly taking grasp of the audience's sympathy and holding it until the play's final moment. As his life heads recklessly down the path of disaster, he clings to his belief in God's goodness...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

...life, Miró loved to put poetic titles on his pictures. Example: The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and Morning Rain, 1940. Find the nightingale? The song? The rain? The viewer may never puzzle out any of these challenges, but he will have been forced to let his imagination investigate the whole of the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Voyager into Indeterminate Space | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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