Word: lover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber Music, first published in 1907. In this sequence of lyrics 25-year-old Joyce gave his version of love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry...
Grandson of the powerful Duke of Northumberland (beheaded 15 months before Philip's birth), nephew of the Earl of Leicester (rumored lover of Queen Elizabeth), godson of Philip of Spain, Sir Philip Sidney minimized his royal connections by taking as motto: Hardly do I call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash...
...persistent than that which represents the nation's teachers. Mostly public servants, they have plenty of political sophistication and are well aware that few people can resist any sort of appeal in the name of Education. Many a pedagogical eyebrow raised, therefore, when that great politician and school-lover Franklin D. Roosevelt last week gave the education lobby an unexpected tongue lashing...
Muni's superb characterization of the older Zola is a result of the most careful and concentrated preparation. A lover of makeup, he added extra hair to his own black beard and worked out an arrangement which took three hours each day to apply. He studied all the existing records of Zola's life and the Dreyfus case. At home he spoke his lines into a dictaphone and played them back for sound. He mastered characteristic gestures: the irritated twirling of the pince-nez, the contemplative tapping of the stomach, the sudden bursts of laughter...
...jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt but "almost in her time what woman may be in ours.'' This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover Troilus for a Greek lover, Diomedes; she chooses an unhappy life among the alien Greeks to carry on the vital idea of Troy...