Word: lyrical
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...jubilee, these were somewhat chilly and impersonal phrases, and it was perhaps significant that of all the songs written for the occasion, one of the most popular with the Komsomoltsy themselves was a sentimental little lyric entitled Farewell, Accordion Player. It records the unhappiness of the girls in the village on learning that their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies...
...letters, the work of John Ward Ostrom (associate professor of English at Wittenberg College), is essential to every serious student of Poe's career; but on the basis of this collection alone the reader might well form a picture of America's greatest lyric poet as a hardworking, businesslike, irritable literary politician...
This treasure of a message, pried up after many heaves of grandiloquent rhetoric, might better have been left buried. But among the shorter lyrics that follow it are several which may give the reader an extraordinary sense ot pleasure. For, slight though they are, they announce the survival of one of the finest of American lyric talents...
...Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
When a suspicious British soldier leads a searching party to the house, Dennehay goes over the cliff and is smashed to death. As Author Godden handles this story, it becomes at once an anguished lyric and a beautifully balanced tale of suspense...