Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Utzon's idea was entirely sculptural and poetic. The son of a naval architect, Utzon had grown up near ship and sea and within sight of Elsinore castle...
Despite his ultra-British manner, he was an American poet through earnestly adopted nationality and 30 years' residence. Until Wystan Hugh Auden died in Vienna last week at 66, no contemporary writer struck so well or held so long and so humanely the characteristic poetic note...
...political quest for the just city began to take a decisive turn-back from politics to what had always been its central problems, guilt, anxiety and individual man. A poetic drama, The Ascent of F6, written with Isherwood, was crucial. It began as a political satire and ended up as a sort of medieval mystery play. "One saw oneself in the presence of evil-from the beginning," Auden would later explain, "and one realized how difficult it would be to change...
...lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays during his 57-year literary career. His final poetic work, Thee, published in 1971, summarized his personal philosophy "that there are no final solutions, that things may have no meaning...
...magazine salesman recites our 1940 roster of editors and researchers as part of a TIME subscription sales pitch to his potential customers - whose response is somewhat less than enthusiastic. Novelist P.G. Wodehouse proved to be a masthead reader too. In the 1955 Christmas issue of Punch, he published a poetic catalogue of our editorial staffers, including then-Managing Editor Roy Alexander: "How very much I would enjoy,/ To call Roy Alexander 'Roy'/ And hear him say 'Hullo, dear...