Word: elegiacally
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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...
There is no oratory in December 7. Twenty-eight years ago last week, as World War I began, Sir Edward Gray, tall, elegant, elegiac, looked out on a darkening London on the darkest day of his life and murmured the phrases that will live longer than his works. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Like a thin spire of a phrase left standing from another epoch, the words ominously summed up the mood of the pre-War world...
...description is accurate, dramatic, elegiac. Europe's breakdown "cannot be explained in terms of any single revolutionary formula." A series of sinister political geniuses, he believes, had something to do with it. "Lenin was its herald and pioneer. Hitler has made a great contribution. Mussolini and Stalin have played important roles. . . . But the revolt is not the handiwork of any single man or group of men. . . . Over this tremendous collapse . . . broods a strong element of fatalistic inevitability...
...wakening was Decision's first effort to revive western culture. Its first issue was ghostly and nostalgic, largely composed of sad reminiscences, tortured verse, confused self-questionings. Its most substantial pieces were a disillusioned essay by Aldous Huxley, condemning modern Europe's faith in facts, and an elegiac article on French civilization by Janet Planner...
...hours later Hugo Leichtentritt, lecturer on Music, speaks in Paine Hall on "The great masters of Baroque and Rococo Music in their idyllic and elegiac aspects: Bach, Handel, Rameau, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart." Musical illustrations are to accompany this talk, one in a Wednesday series by Leichtentritt...