Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 330 high school teachers applied for the 15 slots in the poetry seminar, Vendler said, adding that the final group of teachers was both diverse and highly dedicated to the study of lyric poetry...
...Mayor Harold Washington rejected it, calling it slow and none too spunky. Now Jacobs is not getting the prize money, and the weary committee must reopen the competition. Said Essee Kupcinet, head of the committee: "I can't face listening to another song." Washington said he prefers a lyric filled with the names of famous Chicagoans. Right on, mayor. For starters...
Today Blitzstein's work can be seen as period agitprop, analogous to Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. It is colored with the lyric causticity of the Brecht-Weill collaborations. Yet it is always a mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy...
...shaven bronze dome of a head, nautical beard and Queequeg-like mien, daintily stitching in a studio littered with harpoons and coot decoys, is one of the more striking images of role reversal the art world affords.) In fact, his imagination goes far beyond that: it has a sparkling, lyric quality, which comes not so much from preordained imagery as from the way he handles his materials...
GOOD ACTING OFTEN GETS WASTED in a bad play and that tragedy occurs in the Class Act Production's staging of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, currently at the Lyric Stage Theater in Boston. Pre performances by the three-woman cast are high powered and believable, yet the characters they play are one dimensional and difficult to understand...