Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal magnetism is terrific. He can stand for hours on a speaking platform, his fists clenched, denouncing, weeping, pleading, laughing-and sweeping before him the most hostile listeners. Terrified for his life, he even mistrusts foreign correspondents, who must be frisked before he will see them. He is a lyric poet, and writes with an exquisite hand-a great accomplishment in classical China. Since he is the only really big Chinese to favor their cause, the Japanese prize him like some fragile T'ang Dynasty vase. Despite his record as a shifty recreant, despite the fact that Chinese honor...
...anthology were made of it, this novel would contain perhaps 100 each of almost incredibly beautiful poems, lyric paintings, scenes from motion pictures. Faulkner has learned more from films, and could give them more, than any other writer...
...comedy team of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope meets up with Dorothy Lamour. Miss Lamour (whose leggily revealing sarong turns out never to have been a sarong, but a sinjang) is earning her way with a gay little dance number in which she gets bull-whipped. Crooner Crosby, the lyric son of a businessman, has an irrepressible urge to be a beachcomber. He and Bob Hope take Miss Lamour beachcombing with them. Bing Crosby sings one song (Kaigoon) in Esperanto...
...those days money was easily earnt and plenty of it," and the Welsh coal miners lived a powerful, lyric, godly life without regard for English speech or English law; eating excellently, working hard and steadily. The authority of God and of each family's father dwelt as organic in them as song, and song was as immediate to them "as sight is in the eye." Then paradise was lost: the iron works in the next valley shut down and flooded the collieries with cheap labor...
...dialect is fast moving and expressive, and the tall tales are fantastic and original. It has been held by some reviewers that the Almanacs, with all their humor, have not the literary quality ascribed to them by Howard M. Jones in his foreword to the book. Although the "lyric exuberance" of these stories might be doubted, what does seem undeniably present in these anecdotes is an outstanding amount of imagination and originality in the language and the situations...