Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Super Bowl was so beautiful and so American. From the moment the announcer said, "Let fly the birds of peace," and thousands of birds were let flown, we knew we were in store for something poetic...
...world seldom rewards youthful poetic flights with more than an indulgent pat on the head. Children's poetry usually gets published in block letters on the classroom wall, commissioned by the teacher and dutifully admired by proud parents on go-to-school nights. If some young Ariel occasionally soars past the lyrical altitude expected of his years, the world only marvels at his precocity. But Richard Lewis, 31, believes that children are born poets who move surely through the language of metaphor and song, and he offers this anthology in evidence...
...such as 'achievement-oriented' or 'need-achievement' were, if I am not mistaken, invented by colleagues and friends of mine, Harry Murray and David C. McClelland ... It has occurred to me that they may be driven by a kind of asceticism precisely because they are poetic men of feeling who . . . have chosen to deal with soft data in a hard way." Now then, my boy, is there any better example of flapdoodle than that...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: HODIE (Angel). This first recording of Williams' cantata has some exuberant, even jazzy moments, but the general mood is sweetly hushed and hymnlike -a reverent setting for various poetic passages about Christmas, such as Thomas Hardy's Oxen and Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. David Willcocks turns in his usual impeccable performance as director of the several choruses and the London Symphony Orchestra...
...Poetic Talent. Kurt Kiesinger seemed fated for a conciliator's role. His home is in Swabia, a good-natured area of Germany that lacks the fierce regional pride that burns so intensely in many parts. He came from a home that was both Lutheran (his father) and Catholic (his stepmother), though he himself is a Catholic today. His regal bearing leads most people to think he is an aristocrat, but he springs, in fact, from a lower-middle-class family, in which he was the eldest of seven children. His father?now a sprightly 90?was a bookkeeper...