Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kidding himself, breakfast foods, Mother, and "Orson," he sashayed through a primer that contained a lot of deft, well-timed writing. He produced some more than casually turned lyrics, and a good deal of information about what goes on in a radio studio.¶stood for Crossley ratings. M was for Mother ("All mothers are wise, and most of them speak with a sectional accent"). O was for Orson, celebrated in a lyric commencing "Who is Orson? What is he, that all the critics hail him?" and ending "All is well that ends with Welles." At Q, quizzes came...
...theme of Flotsam is one of the most massive, intimate and terrible derangements of human living within human memory. Remarque, able as he is, is not fully equal to it; perhaps no human talent could be. Besides, Flotsam has some lyric flights that droop in midair; some touches of sentimental sententiousness; some comedy too national quite to cross a border; one or two bits almost of cheapness. But Remarque, like Hemingway, has the rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply...
Exhibited for the first time at the Germanic Museum from April 10 to 24 are the works of Rainer Maria Rilke, contemporary lyric poet. The collection includes original letters, special and rare editions of his books, and translations. They were loaned by Dr. R. M. E. von Mises...
...Lighthouse. All three were stream-of-consciousness novels. To some readers they didn't always make sense, but they made her name and parts of them almost made music. Like a musician, she liked to strike the mood of her books with a borrowed lyric on which she improvised infinite variations...
...also stated yesterday that English 4, a course in lyric poetry will be a combination of two present courses, English 85a and English 85b. Although it will incorporate some of the material of English 85, English 4 will be a new course...