Word: poetics
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...Thus was poetic justice done, for only last October swashbuckling General Sidki organized a putsch, sent a flight of bombing planes circling over Bagdad, forced young, dreamy-eyed King Ghazi to install a puppet Premier (TIME, Nov. 9), and proceeded to consolidate his own power by instigating the assassination of General Jafar Pasha el Askari, the Defense Minister...
...begin to have a vague sense that somehow you have felt something-you hardly know what," he expresses what the sympathetic reader feels about such a Wellsian book as Star-Begotten. And occasionally, as a good journalist may, Wells's burbling, suggestive, enthusiastic talk strikes out a suddenly poetic phrase that rings in the memory: "With their hard, clear minds and their penetrating, unrelenting questions stinging our darkness as the stars sting...
...author of Actor Meredith's last two successes, Winterset and High Tor, quickly soothed managerial feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost...
...changing values, both in the world about us and especially in literature, Mr. Hillyer has steered a tolerant, sane, and mature course. As a man of letters he has not gone off into the wilderness with many other modern poets. Instead he has preserved and seasoned his outstanding poetic gifts with a mind looking toward the future. And thus it can be said of a distinguished man in a very distinguished chair, "The best...
Aside from the beauty of its speech and the power of its story, The Fall of the City proved to most listeners that the radio, which conveys only sound, is science's gift to poetry and poetic drama, that 30 minutes is an ideal time for a verse play, that artistically radio is ready to come of age, for in the hands of a master a $10 receiving set can become a living theatre, its loudspeaker a national proscenium...