Word: rimbaud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Season in Hell, Rimbaud...
...with 7,000 glass stalactites. The lighting can be altered from very bright to intime. Out of view but also done over is the ancient kitchen; heretofore state banquets have been catered affairs. The French press unanimously applauded Pompidou's devastating coup de main. Someone recalled that Arthur Rimbaud, one of Pompidou's favorite poets, told Frenchmen: "One must be absolutely modern." That was back...
...that the whole world is wicked, he spews out a book of vitriolic verses advertising his family as an archetypal clan of upper-middle-class monsters. By besmirching their reputation he established his own. But his success becomes his fate. In literature he is merely a marked-down Rimbaud who curses a corrupt society as a way of joining it; in private life he is a frightened, self-seeking, self-deceiving fumbler. The book's most moving passages are those in which Vercors shows how his hero's fear of love makes him lose the girl he should...
...Rolling Stones paid due and reverential homage. Many of Dylan's partisans even suggested that he might be the best young poet in the country. His lyrics combined paranoia, pop art and elusive, often violent imagery into a carefully crafted chaos that sounded a bit like Rimbaud writing rock and roll...
...underscore France's improving relations with Britain, he recited a line from the 19th century poet Arthur Rimbaud: "Ah, for the time when [our] hearts entwine...