Word: classicistic
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...with considerable hauteur, Eliot professed himself an Anglo-Catholic, a royalist and a classicist, and the chaplet of lyrics (Ash Wednesday) which celebrated his conversion remains the most richly beautiful of his poems. In the '30s, taking hints in diction from his brilliant junior W.H. Auden, he wrote the poetic dramas Murder in the Cathedral and Family Reunion. Now, at an age (54) when the talent of many good poets is dead and buried, he publishes the harvest of his last seven years, these four "quartets." Of all his poems they are the most stripped, the least obviously allusive...
...function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana or a Rossini, pass for "classical" music. It is up to the popular...
...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
Although "the Lord" will be leaving "the manor" this summer when Professor Roger B. Merriman gives up his mastership of Eliot House, indications are that his successor, classicist Professor John H. Finley will continue the traditions which "Frisky," established upon his arrival 11 years...
...WIDENING STAIN-W. Bolingbroke Johnson-Knopf ($2.50). A sultry French teacher and an elderly classicist with a weather eye for women are violently extinguished in a U.S. university library. A girl cataloguer, playing a hunch, risks her life and traps a murderer with a peculiar motive. A capable plot enriched with gay limericks on academic life...