Word: poeticizing
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...most celebrated opponent of the Park government is the popular poet Kim Chi Ha, 34. Kim has persistently used poetic satire to ridicule the government, earning several terms in prison for his efforts. Sentenced to death last year, Kim was released in February. Last month he was jailed again on charges of having violated South Korea's sweeping anti-Communist law. The government, meanwhile, has begun international distribution of a pamphlet called The Case Against Kim Chi Ha, an effort to prove the highly dubious contention that Kim is a fervent Communist. Kim's friends fear that...
...Life is Elsewhere the hero (Jaromil) is an overprotected, mother's only beloved boy who discovers and embraces at the same time, live, revolution, poetic strength, political intolerance and impotence. Youth, poetry, revolution and sexual immaturity fit together for Kundera...
Kundera actively hates poetry as much as he hates the crimes perpetrated under the banner of poetic political slogans. But he is certainly wrong when he equates the surrealistic slogans of the May 1968 revolt in Paris ("L'imagination au pouvoir." "La poesie est dans la rue!" "Soyez realistes demandez l'impossible!") with the Stalinist slogans Jaromil is editing for the May Day parade in Prague some twenty years before. Nothings was more foreign to the spontaneity and libertarian spirit of the May 1968 revolt than the oppressive regimentation of the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia; the Parisian May had probably...
...glasses, Daniel Beckhard gives rich expression to David's terror and alienation. His presence on stage is as disturbing to us as it is to his family, though our distance keeps our horror, unlike theirs, from turning into hatred. Beckhard is not always at home with Rabe's more poetic passages; but his performance is riveting when he rises to a fever pitch of outrage, denouncing the cruelty he sees and hating himself for listening to voices not his own, or when he subsides into a hurt, despairing sarcasm that admits the futility of his denunciations...
...Even the heavens are weeping for President Chiang." That was the poetic phrase used by many Chinese in Taipei last week to describe the incessant downpour that accompanied the paying of respects to the late President Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, April 14). For many-especially the veteran Nationalists who followed Chiang to Taiwan after the Communists took control of the mainland in 1949-his passing was a wrenching emotional experience...