Word: lyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer need the followers of the Green bow their heads in shame when the Harvard band marches onto the field with one member banging melodically on his lyre-shaped instrument. No longer can Yale vaunt its silver-toned hope in front of the Hanoverian stands as they bend their heads in shame...
...applied, "the pathetic fallacy" imputes to Nature the appropriate emotional states of the despairing, joyful or ironic poet. Poe's croaking ravens and ghastly rushing rivers were clear examples; T. S. Eliot used the same stage effects in more modern terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse as for his U. S. background was Poet Lionel Wiggam notable. Twenty-year-old son of a welterweight champion and a farmer's daughter, he entered...
...Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great white wings. Dancer Dollar...
...murky tavern where Nero, in disguise, fights a gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia or strumming on his lyre. When he stabs himself he gasps his own epitaph: ''What a great artist dies...
...star shines in the sky, near to Vega, the chief component of the Lyre. It is easily seen just after sunset, sinking in the west; but it shares with the Big and Little Dippers the peculiarity of never setting in latitudes north of plus 45 degrees...