Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere he writes "I'm the politic man, the poetic man, something for everyone"; maybe he expects too much of the written word. There are, unfortunately, parts of the Goldfarb corpus that imply that saying anything is saying enough, and that no invasion of the senses, if done in the presence of a large number of people, can be ennervating...
PUCCINI: LA BOHÈME (2 LPs; Seraphim). The recording dates from 1956, a wonderful year to catch Soprano Victoria de los Angeles as the purest of Mimis, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as the most poetic of Rodolfos, and Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham as an expressive Puccinist. The album was produced by the European firm EMI and originally sold by RCA Victor in the U.S. When EMI severed ties with Victor, the album was dropped from Victor's catalogue, only to be resurrected now with its new trademark of little seraphim wings. Mono only...
...veritable Seine of cinema. Though mercifully divided into 80-minute stretches and released as eleven separate features (among them Breathless, My Life To Live, Alphaville) Godard's work is intended as a single film. It is his Comedie Humaine, an intricate, enormous, tricky-trashy yet heart-stabbingly poetic attempt to cinemulate Balzac's masterpiece...
Teresa of Avila, the 16th century saint, had poetic visions of "pure water running over crystal, the sun reflecting it and striking through it." Simone Weil, the lonely Jewish girl who turned into a Christian mystic, tells how the recitation of lines by George Herbert, such as, "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back," acted on her intuitive unconscious like prayer. "Then it hap pened," she recalled. "Christ himself came down, and he took...
Instead of an ethereal poetic sentiment, the daughter wrote