Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tries to be a good German and a good European, last week said: "The world must be convinced of American strength . . . The U.S. has today perhaps the mightiest mission in history. In a human and historic sense America has the duty-if you don't mind my sounding poetic-to see that the light never goes out on our earth ... I want to see a united Europe. Only then can my country be free. To do that, we need the help of the best Europeans of all-the Americans...
...prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological riddles. Merton has reproduced a poetic experience without contaminating the purity of his emotion with any insincerity...
...sleeper, i.e., a low-budget job that surprises its makers by being a hit. It has had a delayed release in the U.S. after making a reputation for itself in England. Except for its sentimental view of crooks, it is a well-made little crime movie flavored with poetic young love...
...baby pants, girdles, pillows), likes to buy space in newspapers to print his own opinions and those of people he admires (e.g., Sumner Welles, Robert M. Hutchins)-and incidentally to plug his company. In March 1945, Pegler took off on Businessman Spanel and his ads, saying one was "a poetic construction well expressing the attitude of some demagogues of the extreme left ... A native of Russia and an admirer of the Soviet system might be pardoned in the error." The Journal-American headlined the column: AMERICAN PAPERS SELL ADVERTISING SPACE TO PRO-RED EDITORIALISTS...
...years ago, at 46, Montana-born Novelist Guthrie, a veteran Kentucky newspaperman (Lexington Leader), proved in his first novel, The Big Sky, that an honest imagination edged with poetic understanding could rescue the trading and trapping mountain men of the West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass...