Word: poeticizing
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...prison camp. For reasons that have nothing to do with brainwashing, he chooses to defect to Red China, where he goes bamboo by marrying a pretty Maoist. Aesthetics, not politics, is Heather's thing. Dialectical materialism and the concept of the Holy Trinity appeal to him for their poetic tensions...
...customary to explain Dylan's success as a matter of his own eloquence and poetic sensibilities which would, in fact, account for most of his influence among other writers and performers. But his hold over the public cannot be explained so simply. His early songs filled a great spiritual need in America, a need manifested clearly in the historical coincidence of the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam protests. This is the need to believe "we shall overcome"--easily, dramatically, totally, and soon. Dylan's later music is far more challenging, more realistic (though not at all compromised), digging...
...what impressed Peck most about the Berrigans were their patriotism--their roots in the Midwest American heartland--and their discipline. Peck knew about neither Phil Berrigan's peace movement past, his hardheaded political analyses and "Just War" philosophy (no pacifist he), nor Dan's more cosmopolitan and poetic development. Sufficient for Peck were the facts that the Catonsville people spoke from their firsthand experiences in Latin American hills and Paris slums; that they then tried to change the government through normal channels; and that their action was non-violent, based on moral guidelines and designed to awaken religious resonances...
...critic, novelist and poet laureate of England; of cancer; in Hertfordshire, England. C. Day-Lewis came to prominence during the '30s as one of the Oxford poets, a group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories...
...murderous restaurant scene? "To kill two people is really an incredible thing, quite an experience"--deadpan. People laugh nervously, impressed. It doesn't seem to occur to them that Pacino wasn't born with those hard Corleone eyes, that even, noncommital Corleone voice. He is, in fact, a rather poetic-looking man, small and wiry, with Pierrot eyes and a voice colored by a Bronx accent just slight enough to be charming. Expressive hands, a warm grin--these, too, had to be brought under control before he could be a credible Michael...