Word: lyrical
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Lavrovsky sees in his great pupil "a body of very beautiful and tender and expressive lines" and a soul of "great content." Beyond that, he has to struggle to praise her enough. "She is a lyric-dramatic dancer," he says, searching for words. "When I speak of lyric-dramatic, I soften the contours of lyric by adding dramatic and soften the contours of dramatic by adding lyric. But in this instance I wouldn't want them softened...
...tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would not or could not meet the demands and responsibilities of age. Dylan...
Costa has been a star of the San Francisco Opera ever since her debut there in 1959, but her voice has developed remarkably in the past two or three seasons. She is a strong lyric soprano with an agile coloratura range, giving her an easy facility in a wide reach of the soprano repertoire. In New York the critics found it hard to keep their minds on her singing because of her dazzling beauty. The Met, they suggested, could use some dazzlers...
...Pope, according to one lyric, "flew to Galilee across the Apostolic See." Yuk. Chancellor Erhard, someone announced, admiringly changed the name of Unter den Linden to Unter den Lyndon. Hah, hah, jawohl Within the Republican Party there is a "strong underground movement" for Richard Nixon (onto the screen popped an old news photo of Nixon wearing a coal miner's headlamp...
Deftly fusing the activities of Barry Goldwater with the street-corner remarks of Harry Truman, the program delivered this deathless lyric...