Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon thoroughly miserable, James nevertheless struggled on for the better part of 3½ years, well liked but withdrawn, notable mainly for his height (he was known as "Moose") and for a certain mastery of poetic metaphors in English class. He dropped out for part of a term, and with Alex, he joined a North Carolina band called the Fabulous Corsayers that played straight rock 'n' roll. Back at Milton, he grew suicidal, and at 17, he signed himself into the McLean Hospital, a mental home in Belmont, Mass...
Horovitz, like his fellow members of Pagliacci Incorporated, always seems on the verge of saying something of size and substance but never gets past the verge. When a playwright says nothing that is fresh, deep, strange, poetic or startling about the business of being human, the frustrating irrelevance of the evening seems to cancel out the apparent signs of theatrical promise. Indeed, a shrine might be erected to all of these fledgling dramatists, and their patron saint would be Our Lady of Perpetual Promise...
...dedication, intellect and sweeping ambition. Ogdon, in fact, is bidding hard to join a select though all but vanished company of virtuoso pianist-composers. At the close of the 19th and in the early 20th century, the musical type culminated in a series of men who combined powerful and poetic performing styles with highly idiosyncratic ways of writing for the piano-Rachmaninoff as well as Liszt, Busoni and Scriabin. Closer to the present time, the line seems to have ended with Prokofiev and Bartók. All of them, for better or worse, were musicians of originality and vision...
Their last records are now at hand. Anyone with an ear can hear that Janis and Jimi were far from burned out. Moreover, each was instinctively aware that pop music has started to move beyond the pulsating eroticism Janis and Jimi once typified toward deeper, more poetic expression...
That battling hard, Muhammad All, treated the TV audience of the Flip Wilson Show to a poetic version of his March 8 fight with World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier: "Now he lands a right./What a beautiful swing!/And the punch throws Frazier/clean out of the ring./Now Frazier disappears from view./The crowd is getting frantic./ But our radars have picked him up./ He's somewheres over the Atlantic./ Who would have thought/when they came to the fight/that they would witness the launching of a black satellite...