Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentle but unyielding reluctance to father her offspring. Every day the professor stands before their cage at the London Zoo to observe their mating habits. He anticipates a certain fame as the first white man to see and record what native reports suggest is "a ceremonial so poetic, so apparently conscious that, if it were true it must mark a stage between the highest beast and Man." When a government interloper tries to requisition Percy for a suicidal rocket project, the professor decides that nobody is going to make a guinea pig out of his monkey-or vice versa...
Minutes of the Last Meeting, by Gene Fowler. More stories about those three Hollywood musketeers, John Barrymore, W. C. Fields and Author Fowler, disguised as a biography of their colleague and poetic oracle, Sadakichi Hartmann (TIME, April...
What is better in the Advocate does not balance what is worse. A dream-like story with a nightmare ending, Nowhere Special, takes first place by default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...
...intimate painter who put mysterious delights in his pictures of commonplace people and things, Vuillard adapted to painting the poetic creed of his friend Stephane Mallarme:"To name an object is to do away with the three quarters of the enjoyment . . . which is derived from the satisfaction of guessing little by little: to suggest it, to evoke it-that is what charms the imagination." The imagination is consistently charmed by Vuillard's subtle, dreamy interiors, in which he weaves motifs as unobtrusively compelling as those in an oriental brocade. Missia and Thadée Natanson (opposite), painted about...
...seemed at first an amiable chore became a daily burden:"There was no fun in it until after the first five years." Now, the job done, she feels "like a tramp" without a job. Alone in the same apartment where she has lived since 1929, she wonders how her poetic restatement of the old La Fontaine truths will fare in the bookstores. Both the difficulties she faced and the quality of her frequent triumphs can be sensed in her freshening of the ancient favorite, The Fox and the Grapes...