Word: elegiacally
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...fiction the elegiac note is absent, but the same restrained exoticism still appears. Each of the stories is good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item...
Morand knows but disagrees with the opinion of many U. S. citizens that Manhattan is untypical of the U. S. Though he waxes elegiac on Manhattan's skyscrapers, he thinks "nobody now lives in New York for pleasure. One stays there just long enough to make one's fortune. Everyone works as hard as possible, for as few years as possible. . . . You live there, you whistle, you answer 'O.K.' to everything, and you only die at the last moment, very quickly. You aren't born there (a pregnant woman is never seen in the streets...
...again the mood of melancholy surges up-it is never very deep below the surface-and Fish draws three lovely veiled figures in black and silver for another wine-cup stanza, now of an elegiac turn...
Classical Philology 67.--Catullus and the Elegiac Poets. Tuesday, Thursday, at 3.30, and a third hour. Mr. Fobes...
Classical Philology 52.--Greek Elegiac and Lyric Poetry. Mon., Wed., Fri., at 1.30. Dr. Stickney...