Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your excellent article [on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, affirming the right of Communists to remain silent about their affiliations- TIME, Dec. 25] makes it clear that the line of decision of the court as to Communism strongly resembles the wag's poetic description of a snake trail...
...sinking his hands lovingly into dough, Philip teasing the baker's lovesick apprentice. Novelist Newby has a fine ear for simple speech ("The tongue is the waterspout of the heart," declaims Uncle Adrian, "and if you let it get clogged your heart'll bust"). He writes with poetic affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane or ditch and it bled...
...roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius. But the production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...
...this Lear has not philosophic weight enough, nor bright enough poetic wings...
...period and locale come alive in fine sets and props; Actor Hernandez and Dean Stockwell (as the parson's ward) give unusually good performances; the script furnishes some tangy color (e.g., the visit of a brassy medicine show), and Director Jacques Tourneur flavors the corn with the poetic zeal of a French chef...