Word: poetics
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Well, one thing leads to another ("It'll be 15 minutes before the National Broadcasting Company will be ready with the next program, so meanwhile you and I . . .") and almost before the homebody realizes it, Ted has to rush off, leaving behind intriguing thoughts, stray wisps of poetic yarn, unwashed tea things. To folks thus beguiled, Ted Malone is Shelley, Prince Charming, Don Juan, Galahad in one. One woman has been wiring him daily and hopefully for six months, seeking a rendezvous. From Missouri, where Ted used to visit in the evening, a once-misunderstood wife confessed to curling...
...holder of the Professorship is chosen each year, without specifications as to nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation, in any field of "poetry," including all poetic expressions in language, music, or the fine arts...
...Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...
MacDowell: Suite No. 2 ("Indian") (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Though he died in 1908, frail, mad, Manhattan-born Edward Alexander MacDowell still holds his title as No. 1 U. S. composer. His poetic "Indian Suite," regarded by some as his masterpiece, avoids tom-tomfoolery, sounds strangely like Sibelius. Brilliantly performed and recorded...
...Cale Young Rice won a roller-skating championship. At 16 he captained an undefeated baseball team. Says he: "I am sure these small triumphs served to strengthen the muscles of my will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . ." Poet Rice's story of his climb up Parnassus has as many alibis as there were slips on its slopes. Thus his attempts eo crash Broadway with verse dramas were steady failures because of "resentment against the frequently made assertion that I was 'America's foremost poet...