Word: poeticizing
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...specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
BERLIOZ: BENVENUTO CELLINI (Philips, 4 LPs). Berlioz's first opera is deeply poetic, grandly exuberant and stunningly performed under Conductor Colin Davis...
...main object and justification of [Central Park] is simply to produce a certain influence in the minds of people . . . The character of this influence is a poetic one and it is to be produced by means of scenes, through observation of which the mind may be more or less lifted out of moods and habits into which it is, under the ordinary conditions of city life, likely to fall." Frederick Law Olmsted's words on his noble design for Manhattan may ring with some irony in a New Yorker's ears today as he promenades his German shepherd...
...means "The Classic of the Power of the Way." According to the jacket of this edition, an overfancy one gussied up with photographs (fog, snow, twigs, grass) and Chinese calligraphy, the Tao Te Ching has been translated more frequently than any book except the Bible. One reason is its poetic strength and simplicity, its way of knitting aphorisms into a form that sounds profound in any language. Just now though, the appeal is mainly philosophic, for the Tao Te Ching is a transcendent argument in favor of passivity. Its morality is the morality of "non-activity" (wu-wei)-"If nothing...
...attracted a tremendous range of films," Kemper commented, citing films varying from abstract and poetic pieces to documentaries...