Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on the tragic predicament of the self in time. Even on brief vacations from eschatology in lyric gardens where
These hothouse procedures produced prodigious fruits. At four, the child was writing poetry. At five, she turned out an impressive 25-page nursery tale. And at 13 she published a novel (The House Without Windows) written with a lyric ecstasy that ravished the critics and made her one of the better-known moppets of the '20s. And then...
...novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish it to professional perfection-a swift, sensitive and funny celebration of a small universal truth. Succinct as poetry, Skaterdater simply happens like a green spring morning; it is the lyric cinematic equivalent of light verse...
Divorced. By Mary Costa, 36, blonde and beautiful lyric soprano, who left a $150,000-a-year job as TV's Chrysler Girl for an opera career, making her widely acclaimed 1964 Metropolitan debut as Violetta in La Traviata: Frank Tashlin, 53, Hollywood writer-director of slapstick comedies (The Man from the Diners' Club); on grounds of cruelty; after twelve years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Waugh was deepened by his religion, and the deepening was steeply apparent in Brideshead Revisited (1945), a lyric celebration of Catholicism that alternates pious puling with the loveliest cadences he ever came upon. He was broadened by the war, and the broadening was vigorously displayed in his masterpiece, a 972-page trilogy (Men at Anns, Officers and Gentlemen, The End of the Battle) which is now widely considered the best British novel of World War II. In the trilogy Waugh creates in Apthorpe his greatest comic character, a Falstaff as funny, as tragic, as human as the huge original...