Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arehibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and will lead a discussion on "The Poetic Drama," and Professor Bertrand H. Bronson of the University of California will head one on "Folk Music and Ballads...
Fragonard, some 30 years younger than Boucher, drifted with the increasing vulgarity of his time, trying hard to please the flamboyant Madame du Barry. Often he peddled his frumptious nudes to Paris' burgeoning demimonde. Fragonard also was a master draftsman with an inspired poetic vision, as proved by his sanguines (red crayon sketches) of Tivoli's Renaissance palace, Villa d'Este, surrounded by antique ruins...
...There is some encouraging evidence that this past year may have seen the worst of this disease. There are promising signs that at appropriately high levels in our government a concern now exists to improve the whole loyalty-security-secrecy setup ... If so, then there is a poetic appropriateness to this occasion. It is my very great pleasure, and my special honor, to present to you Edward Uhler Condon, the retiring president." As crew-cut Dr. Condon got to his feet, the normally undemonstrative scientists cheered for three minutes...
Although Eva LeGallienne has the role of Mrs. Elder, the farm woman, she does not come up to her usual standards. Only her position is pathetic, not her acting. She does not vary the pace of her speaking enough; and consequently, her several poetic outbursts lose their effect. Still, her loftiness shows good insight into the demands of her part...
...Byron's character, it would present no puzzle: any zoo attendant could tumble to it. In fact the monster was a mere segment of it. Women rarely saw the better side of Byron, but to his men friends, the devilish Byron seemed an absurd joke, a mere poetic fantasy. They sat at his feet, bowed to his charm, reveled in the humor and radiance he shed. Their descriptions of him are mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind . . . He was devoid...