Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cantilevered Terrace consists of conversation to the extent that a water melon consists of water, but the play's poetic juices run far too purple. The drama is static, but often as electricity is static. None too likable, the characters assert their right to respect as well as humiliation. As a failure, Terrace exerts more magnetic pull on a playgoer than some playwrights' successes...
...last short story and the one that bears the title of the book is by far the best in the collection. All of Tillie Olsen's work (as of now, four published short stories) involves to some extent fading ideals and filial misunderstanding; "Tell Me a Riddle" provides supreme poetic expression of this theme...
With Moscow's cultural commissars still smarting from his poetic onslaught on Soviet anti-Semitism (TIME, Nov. 3), Russia's indomitable Evgeny Evtushenko, 28, stirred up a new hullaballoo by rebuffing the lionization of the young intelligentiki and flatly denying that his outspokenness made him "a brave man." Wrote Evtushenko in Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta (Kiev edition only...
...here, even the Shakespurists may indulge in a delighted suspension of disbelief. Dream was produced in Czechoslovakia by a 49-year-old gimcrack genius named Jiri Trnka (pronounced Trnka). the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc; it is incomparably the best puppet picture ever made, a shimmering translation of poetic fancy into technological fantasy, a planned delirium of light and color for the educated eye, and for literary innocents of whatever age the perfect introduction to Shakespeare...
...streets are long and the street song. The birds fly over the days fly along. The birds all new A new day now for boy and girl for man and lady. This poetic pabulum somehow misses the tragic sense of life remembered from, say, Old Mother Hubbard or Three Blind Mice, and is, moreover, unchantable. Furthermore, those writing for today's young would not dream of mentioning a scandalous one-woman population explosion like Mother Hubbard and her substandard housing, and no farmer's wife would be allowed to behave so sadistically toward three handicapped mice...