Word: amourous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Overture to "Raymond" Thomas 2. Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldtcufe 3. Fantasia, "Manon Lescant" Puccin 4. College Songs 5. Suite from "The Cid" Massenex a. Castillane b. Andalouse c. Aragonaise 6. Procession to the Cathedral, "Lohengrin" Wagner 7. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchsikersky 8. College Songs 9. Polonaise Chopin 10. Salut d'Amour Nigar 11. Invitation to the Dance Weber Beriton
Brilliantly, beneath the flamboyant ceiling-piece of the banquet hall, on the terrace under the tremoloing stars, the company conversed. They spoke of man's relationship to the Absolute, of the art of Correggio, contraception, the difference between amour and amore, hypocrisy (it gangrenes gallantry), religion, cats. Little by little, they split off into pairs, these beautiful women, these men of genius. Irene became engaged to Hovenden despite his lack of dental fricatives; Calamy gave himself to Miss Thriplow and made her regret it; Mrs. Aldwinkle, rebuffed by Chelifer, went off to Monte Carlo...
Martini--Plaisir d'amour...
...collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood, all the way from Lyre and lute d'amour to saxophone and piccolo. Truly a Herfordian idea. Second, that the total amount of Prose written on the subject of Poetry is vastly in excess of the amount of actual Poetry that has been composed in the same space of time; accordingly it is time to turn the tables...
...Casanova, in life, was not only Don Juaner than Don Juan ever thought of being-he wrote eight volumes or so of memoirs to prove it. On the stage, in this play adapted from the Italian by Sydney Howard, he is somewhat expurgated but still romantic. The only real amour that dramatic exigencies permit him is one with Henrietta. The 300 others are sufficiently indicated in the delightful ballet-prologue. But space is left for the repentance of his dotage when, 20 years later, soothed by the sight of his illegitimate daughter, he dies kissing the carpet she has just...