Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frozen Instant. To evoke Pasternak's poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...
...challenge those few critics who still differentiate between "literary" and "journalistic" writing to read your Nov. 19 cover story on the big blackout. It's poetic. SISTER MARY ROSELYN, R.S.M. Department of English Mercy College Detroit...
...TACKLES: Francis Peay, 21, Missouri, 6 ft. 4 in., 246 lbs., and Sam Ball, 21, Kentucky, 6 ft. 4 in., 241 lbs. "If I were poetic," says one scout, "I'd say that Peay was very subtle for a lineman. There is real class in the way he hits people." Ball, says another, is simply "a mean S.O.B." Both are exceptionally agile for big men: "No matter how big a man is, he's going to be caught off balance too often if he hasn't got coordination...
...music and photography, for all their beauty and aptness, are only corollaries to the script. The author, Archibald MacLeish, wisely insisted that Glazier and Laderman work from it without changes. It is simple and poetic, yet within the eulogistic lyricism, MacLeish offers dozens of fresh insights into the motives and character of Mrs. Roosevelt. He makes her humanity human. And at the end we know the woman, not as a psychiatrist or a political admirer would, but as her friends must have...
Nonetheless, Evgeny Evtushenko, the bad boychik of Soviet letters, was at it again, this time kicking up a few vaguely dangerous poetic heels at the party during a Moscow meeting on the 70th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin. In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed...