Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...
George Bemberg's "The Craftmanship in Paul Valery" heads an excellent critical section. Expert and authoritative, if overly lyric in its praise, the article is mainly handicapped by its audience's unfamiliarity with the subject matter. Fortunately many well chosen quotations will aid readers over unfamiliar ground. An expanded book review section and a series of three columns on Music, Theatre, and Art add unusual critical depth to the issue...
Tabuteau's technique is matched by his musicianship. He can turn a melodic phrase with a lyric grace matched by few virtuosos of any instrument. Famous pianists and violinists who play with the Philadelphia Orchestra listen reverently to the accent of his Beethoven or Brahms. Other oboists* listen to Philadelphia recordings and performances just to study Tabuteau...
Little brother Ulysses, meanwhile, has made himself, in his four-year-old wanderings, the most delicately engaging character in the book. Saroyan seldom manages to embody emotions, but his lyric talent can brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing his mother an egg as importantly as if it were the Eucharist; or, with a half-witted friend, scanning the books in the Public Library; or, before a robot in a shopwindow, first realizing death...
...human body." While O'Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work, utterly original, has graphic cleanliness, economy, purity, a lyric quality suggesting that of Poetess Emily Dickinson...