Word: rimbauds
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...little shocked and grieved to read in your usually so sophisticated pages the reference to the "neurotic verses" of Arthur Rimbaud, "who went looking for the secrets of life in its sewers, via drugs and debauchery" [TIME, March...
...Rimbaud . . . did not only start fastidious saints like Paul Claudel upon their spiritual career, but is himself something of a patron saint of the significant modern poetry in all countries. If such a world-shaking record deserves nothing better than a sewer simile, one cannot help preferring the sewer to the sterilized Olympus which inspired your unneurotic and un-debauched literary standard in the present case...
...City Ballet Company, Ashton was delighted. Ever since the war he had been coddling an idea that he thought might be too salty for English dancers. While he was an R.A.F. intelligence officer stationed in Scotland, he had taken to reading the neurotic verses of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, who went looking for the secrets of life in its sewers, via drugs and debauchery. A lot of what Rimbaud (rhymes with Sambo) had to say was "indecent," Ashton told himself; but perhaps he could put Rimbaud into successful ballet just the same. Ashton's countryman, Composer Benjamin Britten...
...illumine his Illuminations, Choreographer Ashton had atomized both Rimbaud's violent life and his poetry, put the pieces back together in a sequence of nine charade-like "danced pictures." The pictures were full of familiar Ashton trademarks-the wit of Wedding Bouquet, the subtle fancy of Facade, the gay, gregarious pageantry and a little of the slapstick of Cinderella. And there were salty passages indeed; Rimbaud's (Nicholas Magallanes) painfully sexual grapple with Profane Love (Melissa Hayden) was both lurid and profane...
...Little Afraid. Most astonishing to Ashton fans was the new, contorted violence of his work. When Illuminations came to an end (with the shooting of Rimbaud by Poet Paul Verlaine), the sellout audience brought the house down...