Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lorenz Hart, 48, lyric half of Rodgers & Hart, habitual hit-tunesmiths; in Manhattan. To Richard Rodgers' swingful songs pint-sized, cigar-mangling Hart had joined his agile verses more than 1,000 times, enlivened more than 25 Broadway shows, including Pol Joey, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, A Connecticut Yankee...
John Golden, 69-year-old Broadway producer (Three's A Family), who wrote the lyric of Poor Butterfly, was the author of a new one: the official theme song of New York City's Department of Sanitation. Sample...
...that to criticize the absence is almost beside the point. Miss Welty is apparently interested in the world and in people chiefly as embodiments of love, enchantment and death. Moreover, Miss Welty is not writing stories. She is using words to create works of art which lie somewhere between lyric poetry, painting, the still untouchable possibilities of color photography, and dancing. A young Negro dandy in a zoot suit becomes, in Miss Welty's perception, an image of almost Shakespearean loveliness...
TIME has given me a good introduction to the work of a man whom I knew I ought to know. For this, thank you. Toward the end of the review a lyric is quoted, The dove descending . . . which strikes me hard with pleasure in the poetry and in the impact of the thought...
...pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song, and Hi-De-Ho-High is good Waller husky-dusky. One lyric offers the final criticism of liquid hosiery...