Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poems, by e.e. cummings. Age (64) has not withered the lyrical high jinks of the U.S.'s poetic dean of lower-case letters...
These statements, which contain the essential message of the film, have poetic light and spiritual resonance, but they read better than they sound from the screen. Despite intelligent acting by Actor Howard, skillful touches from Director Huston and some awesome landscapes with elephants, this huge (2 hrs. 11 mins.) movie finally seems no more than a literary notion that has apparently suffered, along with CinemaScope and DeLuxe color, a severe attack of elephantiasis...
Tonight's lecture, "A Latin American Composer," begins the series of six entitled "The Musical Thought." On Nov. 18 Chavez will speak on "Poetic Communication," and on Dec. 17 his topic will be "Form in Music." There will be three more lectures in the spring...
...Poetic Communication" (followed by concert...
...Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada. This climb, which occupies about a fourth of The Dharma Bums, is a writer's set piece, a hymn to nature. Kerouac's poetic imagery of towering snowscapes, frosty-breathed dawns, star-drugged nights suggests that the great American romance is still the Great Outdoors. At trip's end Japhy prepares to leave for a Japanese Buddhist monastery, while Ray is possessed by a Whitmanesque vision of "a great rucksack revolution," with "millions...