Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some observers saw a bit of poetic justice in the race. Frannie King, first Harvard leg, fell flat on his face from what appeared to be a deliberate foul by the Yale runner. King regained his feet and raced on, yards behind...
...Poetic Justice...
While Shadow and Substance is too measured, too lacking in poetic vitality to rank with the best dramas of J. M. Synge and Sean O'Casey, it is likely to be a permanent addition to Irish literature, is surely as good a play as Broadway will see this year...
When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, poetic savor. Not only in Brooks's book but in lesser works like Odell Shepard's Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Branson Alcott, readers can catch whiffs of a morning freshness in the cultural air, when poets and novelists no less than practical citizens took on themselves lifetime projects, came back to work unshaken after personal tragedy or public disgrace...
...mother has mellowed some since her rapturous and highly-opinionated youth, and so she is opposed to the project. But she is embarrassed into inglorious submission when the daughter reads her a poetic account of the mother's life of some twenty years ago with an enthusiastic young Communist. It appears that the girl has been writing a thesis in college on the contribution of Greenwich Village to freedom in American literature and morals, and incidentally delving into her mother's racy past. The latter soon has company in her embarrassment, however, because the partner of her ecstatic adventure...