Word: elegiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis audience welcomed the piece wholeheartedly, from the poignantly elegiac first movement to the brilliant and stirring folk dance at the end. Wrote Tribune Critic Norman Houk: "The Bartok concerto was a major success ... It was given an alert, keyed-up performance by a soloist, orchestra and conductor who had been working on the complex score for a strenuous week . . . A permanent and important addition to the viola repertory...
...kind of interest as a report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced the time every 15 seconds"); the blonde whom gentlemen preferred and who was thrilled...
Waugh himself now regards Brideshead as a failure, a task beyond his powers. But readers were perhaps more right than the critics. The book has an elegiac beauty, like a bell tolling in a solitary church, where no one comes...
...presenting a series of three public lectures next week in conjunction with exhibitions of the Museum class. Edward Williamson, assistant professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University, opens the series today with an illustrated lecture on "The Mask of Venice," followed by a talk on "Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition," by Erwin Panofsky, Norton Professor of Poetry...
This is Queen Victoria's eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max's brisk, elegiac tribute (Lytton Strachey; Knopf; $1) to his late great friend was published in the U.S. It was also the tribute of a dying age to one of the most distinguished of its dead. Wrote Sir Max: "We are told . . . that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship...