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...phenoms like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, but few of his songs were hard-driving rave-ups. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues--these are, if anything, contemporary folk songs. Cash sang of specific injustices and eternal truths; he was the deadpan poet of cotton fields, truck stops and prisons. He was a balladeer, really, a spellbinding storyteller--a witness, in the Christian sense of the word. Here was a man who knew the Commandments because he had broken so many of them...
DIED. ALAN DUGAN, 80, American poet who alternately endeared and offended readers with his language--with its liberal scatological references--and such prosaic themes as drinking, irksome jobs and masturbation; of pneumonia; in Hyannis, Mass. His first collection, Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize...
During a 1967 Faculty meeting in Sanders Theatre, Epps saw his future wife—who was charged with ensuring that only people with identification entered—disallowing entry to well-known poet Robert Lowell, who was at Harvard at the time. Lowell had forgotten his identification, and Epps eventually told the employee from the registrar’s office that she should allow Lowell to attend the meeting...
...time of his death in 1985, at age 97, Marc Chagall was suburbia's favorite genius. He offered modernism without tears, without the headaches of Cubism or the thin air of abstraction. For middle-class Jews, he was also the chronicler of the world of their fathers, the poet of that lost, enchanted universe. By the mid-1960s, when Fiddler on the Roof took its title from one of Chagall's best-known motifs, his popular reputation was at its peak. But in the eyes of an art world that had always been a little unconvinced...
...Chagall who introduced Jewish life into the mainstream of Western art. Proclaiming the glories of his people by way of his exalted memories, he would become the master poet of the Jewish world, the Walt Whitman of the shtetl. But all his life he also adapted Christian imagery to his own purposes. (Remember those flying lovers?) He returned again and again to the Crucifixion but in versions in which Christ is plainly an executed Jew, his loins wrapped in a blue-striped Jewish prayer shawl. By the late 1930s, in paintings like White Crucifixion, Chagall used Golgotha as a sign...