Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday's First Annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest approaches, rivalry has blossomed. Yesterday challenger Richard J. Barton '72 Posted his war sonnet entitled "Beach Beware" on the steps to the House dining hall...
...Caracas, some of the Dream poems, others--are among Lowell's most brilliant. The three poems to R.F.K. seem low-key and common at first-then resonant and vital. The Mexico series on the whole is mediocre--although it has brilliant lines and cadences. Lowell's use of the sonnet to frame his vision emphasizes the uneven inspiration. A few poems are written long to fulfill the form and must take all their life from one or two wonderful lines. Butt others are made taut and alive by their structure...
...mysticism begins with mist and ends in schism. In his soft-centered drama of sex as destroyer and healer, the once promising film maker sedulously apes D. H. Lawrence, whom he seems to have both studied and misunderstood. In the future, Pasolini might well heed an earlier author, whose Sonnet 94 could have been addressed to artists who inflict private fantasies on their public...
Taking its title and its cue from Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, the final moments of the play are unbelievably lyrical. Queenie is offstage. In her place, we watch Smitty (Tom Roulston), the young innocent who has become a cruel opportunist, try to express his honest concern for Mona (Frank Storace). Under Patricia Flynn's direction, the conversation, the pleading, the reaching, and the grappling tumbles out so quickly that an audience can't sort out all that is happening. We see love as the confusing and desperate and tortured state it sometimes it. And, for once, we feel it, when...
Social Realism as a form is tighter, more constrained, more artificial than the sonnet. It has only one scenario: the proletariat realizing its historical role. It has no hero except the proletariat itself. It has only one outcome, the triumph of workers. To a Marxist of course this is the scenario of history, so it is obviously valid and objective. Social Realism is in many ways more like a theorem than a complex work of art. It uses the postulates of a particular system of belief in order to deduce a proof that the original beliefs were valid...