Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rights had several unique features, e.g., Moses' tomb ("No man knows where he is buried, and why not here?"), a rainmaking machine on the roof for poetic inspiration, and a funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple...
Tragedy and old age clubbed him first. His half-Indian daughter drank herself to death, a son was jailed for theft, arteriosclerosis felled Joaquin. "It is not poetic to take pills," he fumed. On the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1913, saying "Take me away, take me away!" he died...
...Catalan is indeed a separate language, spoken by 4,300,000 people in the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Spanish Catalonia, as well as in Andorra. Expatriate Catalans are so proud of their native tongue and literature that they still give prizes for literary and poetic contests, called Joes Florals de la Llengua Catalana...
...Oldest Profession. Ann quickly learns that Rainier, an incorrigible idealist, is about to ship for Korea to fight Communism, and that she has a redoubtable rival: "l'humanité...the last femme fatale." For though her lover bursts with poetic talk about keeping her happy, he is committed to "man's oldest profession, which is to be forever reaching for some distant goal of Justice and Liberty...
Each unassuming page shows why the dizzy decade of Teapot Dome, bathtub gin, flappers, crooners and "It" girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self. No Antoine de Saint Exupery, no philosopher of flight, Lindbergh rarely rises to poetic altitudes and sometimes drones on in childhood reveries and me chanical details. But at its exciting best, his book keeps the reader cockpit-close to a rare adventure...