Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convinced. Mr. Benet breathes up to the ballad; that is his essential lung-power. In the ballad, with its burthen and repetend its flash and glitter and panoply of words, its haunting tonalities, our poet is peculiarly happy. Not that we deny his virtuosity. Mr. Benet can turn from Two Visions of Helen to Italy of the 16th century, hover for a beautiful moment on the Iseult legend, and bob up at 8.30 A. M. on 32nd street all in the space of 2 hours and 97 pages! But and we risk monotony the ballad is his measure...
...Knight, "Stuffy" and Ella Scene 2. 7. Maid for Me, "Spike" Maloney 8. He'll Wait, Ella 9. Say, You Couldn't Hold Me Back, "Stuffy" ACT II. Scene 1. 10. Sympathetic Strike, Opening Chorus 11. Just a Bit of Jazz, "Efficiency" 12. All That's Golden Does Not Glitter, "Stuffy" and "Spike" 13. Land of Pearls, Ella 14. Back to Earth, Ella 15. Khuh-Khuh, Bogas 16. Carnival of Cocoanuts, Aromah Scene 2. 17. Snifiles, I'm al Waze F'hul 18. Arabian Sea, Omar 19. Finale, Entire Cast
Often have we, surveying the unlovely aspect of the Square, thought how sordid, mean, material it was; how often have we longed for any change anything that would make the dull glitter of Massachusetts avenue a little less stupid, anything to brighten the gloom of this dismal village...