Word: poetics
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...became Poet in Residence successively at Amherst, University of Michigan and Harvard. Crowds turned out, as they still do, to hear his lectures and readings of his own poetry. In a creaking, cranky voice as of one grinding his own poetic ax, and with the mannerisms of a Yankee hired man who knows more than he lets on and somewhat despises his boss for knowing less, he dropped hints that poetry was the most important thing in the world. Then he would read from his own poems, as evidence...
...Alexis Carrel, 65. Most famed of the five, bald, poetic Dr. Carrel won the 1912 Nobel Prize for his remarkable success in suturing blood vessels and transplanting organs. For 27 years he has kept a scrap of chicken heart alive and growing. Every few days the heart has to be trimmed, for it spreads so rapidly that if left alone it would fill the laboratory in a year. At present Dr. Carrel is continuing experiments with Colleague Charles Augustus Lindbergh on the "perfusion pump" (TIME, June 13), which keeps other disembodied organs alive outside the parent body for indefinite periods...
...readers follow the footprints of their forbears over the plains they get a warm picture of them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian in view...
...attempt to find new directions in radio drama and to reach a higher level of intelligence in productions than now offered will be the aim of the Literary Committee of the Radio Workshop. They will deal particularly with the theory and practice of poetic drama...
...Biggest poetic outpouring of Japan is the annual Imperial poetry contest, the winners of which were announced last week by the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household. Any Japanese subject may submit a poem of 31 syllables (called a tanka) on a given subject. This year's subject: ''The Morning Sun Shines on the Island." Normally about 17,000 subjects of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito submit a tanka, but the wartime verse boom more than doubled the usual number of contestants. This year's contestants numbered...