Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central government for treason, a year in a Nationalist prison herself. Mao was so impressed that he promptly gave her a job (as vice chairman of a Red army guard unit), then proceeded to write a poem in praise both of Ting Ling and her new job, which by poetic license upgraded the job a bit. Sang Mao: "In the past a literary miss, she is now a General of Armies...
...homeward march of the Ten Thousand ("So. always cold and sometimes freezing, always hungry and sometimes starving, and always, always fighting, they held their own"), or the achievement of Aeschylus ("In a man of this heroic temper, a piercing insight into the awful truth of human anguish met supreme poetic power, and tragedy was brought into being"), or simply the Greek love of sport, she brought an entire civilization into clear and brilliant focus...
...crystal scarabs." He is the constant companion of Poet Jiménez as he walks along the streets of his Andalusian town of Moguer and revels in the beauties of the dramatic Spanish landscape that surrounds it. Sickly and reserved, Jiménez talks to Platero, pours out his poetic cries of delight and despair as he witnesses the beauties of nature and groans at the human condition...
...playing anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...
...play is a satire, partly poetic, about greed and worshippers of the Golden Calf. A group of men want to drill for oil right under Paris in order to wage a destructive war. The countess and her cohorts find a way of trying them in absentia by proxy, and she then "exterminates" them (how I will not reveal...