Word: bards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily...
...early Greek literature we find constant reference to singing and dancing together; they seem to have been inseparably wedded. Most true is this in the religious ceremony, and indeed it was in worship of the gods that the molpe was most generally employed. A bard, with a lyre, stood in the center of the dancing ring, and instituted the dance, and conducted and led the movements, singing to his lyre, and accompanied by the dancers themselves. Later, the dancing chorus was divided into singing and dancing units; from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama...
...this poetry does not come alone from a transient emotional flash. The bard in the Molpe did not compose his song on the spur of the moment. He had a helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious...
...received not little press support. Only to those who live in Santa Fe does the Outcome of the struggle between the old and new directly matter. But it matters to the country that there is at least one town where such a protest finds support, where even today a bard rises with a protest of the old-fashioned kind-in verse, as so many of mankind's greatest protests have been written...
...anonymous contribution to the literature in and of the University was made yesterday by a bard who has masked his real identity under the pseudonym "Silver Star." The contributed bit of poetry was found framed on the ledge underneath one of the Sargent paintings in Widener Library in the company of a wreath also anonymously presented. The Library authorities have been unable to find out the identity of the donor or donors and no statement has been made with regard to the permanent position of the two gifts...