Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting, Marvin Scaife, '39 must be commended as a most seductive femme fatale in the employ of the dictators, and Vinton Freedley, Jr., '40, as a coyly charming heroine. Benjamin Dillingham, '39, played with gusto the role of the king, and Stanley Miller adds his histrionic talents to his lyric and musical, being cast in the part of the hero...
...almost indistinguishable from Poet Auden, he now orients himself to Marx where Auden follows Freud, now writes few poems and many book reviews, turns out detective stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. Last spring he published his first novel, The Friendly Tree, a love story almost panting with lyric breathlessness...
...confused orchestration of Manhattan art galleries last week two flute parts and a vigorously bowed violin made lyric music...
...suppose the moon is always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
MacNeice went to Oxford (1926-30), is a lyric poet of the English tradition. In his collected Poems (1926-37) he publishes a number of the most engaging, and a few of the excellent poems of the times...