Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty invited foreign diplomats, Government officials and wearers of Imperial decorations into the Imperial Park to contemplate his chrysanthemums, arranged in martial rows and patterns of incredible genus and color, arrayed in booths as mountains, cascades, rivers. In the Palace. Hirohito performed certain religious mysteries, and read aloud a poetic rescript. He climaxed the week by showing himself before the people...
...wrote the great Goethe in his poetic memoirs, describing a trip through the forest which Germans call Black. Last week other travelers saw this forest, travelers from the fruitful fields of Kent, from tight little hills of the Cotswolds, from the broad sweep of Devon and Yorkshire moors. To these men the forests had a grisly attraction. These travelers were R. A. F. bomber crews, flying on one of the most extraordinary missions of World...
...British, who have a poetic feel for names, the rechristening of the destroyers became an immediately grave question. One suggestion was that they should bear names of British West Indian islands. A typically British sour note was struck with the suggestion that they should bear the names of British heroes of the U. S. Colonial and Revolutionary period. But the shrewdest suggestion-and one which would please sailors who think name-changing is bad luck-was that they should keep their present names: quiet U. S. heroes like Herndon, Welles, Buchanan, Crowninshield, Abbot, Conner. This would point up the spectacular...
Britons were reluctant to give up their little luxuries-weekends at Brighton, afternoons messing about in the rose garden, outings with the children to Kew Gardens or the Zoo, drinks and darts in the pub around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth...
...went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement in her own head. Choregrapher Graham divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll half to a pleasant, domestic-looking chorine who recited excerpts from Emily Dickinson's hard-bitten verse. The frustrated, poetic, aspiring, cockeyed half she reserved for herself, danced it with a bevy of bouncing males that would have driven prim Poetess Dickinson to a sanatorium. When she was through, her intellectual audience broke into sobs and cheers. Whether or not any dancer's exterior can plausibly represent a poet...