Word: poeticizing
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...lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays during his 57-year literary career. His final poetic work, Thee, published in 1971, summarized his personal philosophy "that there are no final solutions, that things may have no meaning...
...magazine salesman recites our 1940 roster of editors and researchers as part of a TIME subscription sales pitch to his potential customers - whose response is somewhat less than enthusiastic. Novelist P.G. Wodehouse proved to be a masthead reader too. In the 1955 Christmas issue of Punch, he published a poetic catalogue of our editorial staffers, including then-Managing Editor Roy Alexander: "How very much I would enjoy,/ To call Roy Alexander 'Roy'/ And hear him say 'Hullo, dear...
...other day Kissinger sat at the round table in the corner of his office in the White House, a melancholy place now. Something Chou En-lai had told him on his first visit to China came back with special poignancy, almost like a poetic refrain. "There is turmoil under the heavens, and we have the opportunity to end it," Chou had said in the summer of 1971. That line-that language-alone was almost enough to make Kissinger an admirer of Chou's. It is Kissinger's purpose for being. His deep worry is that the chance...
...roots alliance of conservatives succeeded in electing the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus as president of the denomination. Preus, a former professor of Greek and Latin as well as Scripture, is no simple fundamentalist; like other orthodox Missouri Synod theologians, he believes that some parts of the Bible are poetic or symbolic-such as the Book of Revelation. But he also believes that what the Bible presents as factual is factual, and he holds what could be called a theological domino theory: if a man denies the Red Sea story, his son may come to deny the Resurrection...
Meanwhile, Richardson had helped to bring Anderson into the Royal Court theater. Over the years Anderson has also made a reputation as an unflashy, deeply sensitive stage director, notably with productions of several plays by Storey, including The Contractor, Home, and The Changing Room-low-keyed, subtly poetic accounts of seemingly mundane lives...