Word: pantheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening, a voice singing a love song in the street outside inspired him to a love poem of his own-love for God. The poems he went on to write have become classics of mystical poetry. A new edition, published last week, Poems of St. John of the Cross (Pantheon, $2.75), includes the original Spanish, as well as an exceptionally successful English translation by South African Poet Roy Campbell. Sample...
...position "that the holding of a public holiday . . . is not in keeping" with the revering of Lenin. The ukase raised an interesting question: whether Lenin, who used to share joint billing with Joseph Stalin, is now being shunted farther & farther back into a dark corner of the Soviet Pantheon...
...Chinese Communist Party. Red big shots wrote long, tortuous articles for the occasion. A new opera, the theme of which was the Communists' famed "long march," opened at the Peking People's Art Theater. At a rally in Peking, spotlights lit up giant portraits of the Red pantheon, including Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou Enlai, Chu Teh, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only...
...first-rate novels (Man's Fate, Man's Hope) and an equally fine study of art history. Splendidly illustrated translations of the first two volumes of his Psychology of Art were published in the U.S. in 1949. Last week came Volume 3, The Twilight of the Absolute (Pantheon...
AMERICA BEGINS (438 pp.)-Edited by Richard M. Dorson-Pantheon...