Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board chairman of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, functions as deficit sponge and guardian angel to Chicago's spindly poetic colony and to artists in general. So vigorous a patroness is Mrs. Stevenson that no cultural gathering in the city is considered quite legitimate unless she is on hand...
...mystical quality and come on him when he is confronted by someone seeking a solution to life in evil. Amidst the cunning Russian aristocracy he is an unconscious link with the metaphysical, and Gerard Philipe's performance falters only when he lends more melancholy to his lines than poetic innocence. Edwige Feuillere portrays the bold yet sensitive women who first seeks happiness in the coarseness of materialism and then realizes that her only contentment is in the love of the one man who understands her, the Idiot. Her flashing eyes and dominating manner make her convincing in the role; however...
...Weber; Symphony on Poems of William Blake (Warren Galjour, baritone; Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra; Victor). Four poetic movements in the often unpoetic twelve-tone technique. While they do not immediately seem to evoke Blake's passionate poems, the mysterious and richly scored sounds make their own kind of appeal. Superior performance and recording...
...Buttrick, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, hung some crape for the students of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.: "We have explored the planet to learn its secrets, and . . . our ills have multiplied so greatly that our mental hospitals cannot contain them," he gloomed. "It is poetic justice that a generation which has been seeking its own life now has to talk about itself in a psychiatrist's office...
...There is no gap between the poet and the ordinary man," since "most of what they live in is the product of poetic activities," I. A. Richards, University Professor, said last night...