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Died. Hilda Doolittle, 75, Pennsylvania-born expatriate poet (Sea Garden, By Avon River), whose carefully chiseled lyric verse, signed "H.D.," represented the high-water mark of the imagist movement that before World War I broke away from formalized poetry into "words that make images"; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland. Sample image...
...past ten years, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 53, has not only been the leading woman painter of the School of Paris, but also has surpassed many of the men. Some critics have called her a "lyric expressionist," others an "abstract landscapist"; perhaps she is both and more. "With present techniques, an architect can build whatever he wants to," she says. "Why shouldn't I be able to build what I like in a painting?" Painter Vieira da Silva builds intricate constructions that never say, but only hint at what they...
Operetta may be instant opera, but Gilbert and Sullivan still demands voices. In this predominantly British company, the voices are not only superior, they are clearly intelligible. As Mabel, the perky fiancee of Frederic, the dutiful pirate's apprentice, Marion Studholme pours lyric intensity into Poor Wandering One to make it the evening's high sigh spot. As Major General Stanley, spindle-thin Eric House tackles the greatest polysyllabic scat song of the 19th century and "in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral" he is never tongue-tried. But Frederic, as played by Andrew Downie, is more arch boulevardier...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...
Married. Lucy Monroe, 49, whose lyric soprano rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner has opened thousands of civic whingdings (World Series ball games, national political conventions, etc.); and Harold Marc Weinberg, 51, Manhattan attorney; both for the first time; in Manhattan...