Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most U. S. fiction about the automobile has been of the character of Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, with only a few novelists making a serious attempt to investigate the social influence of this piece of machinery in U. S. life. Exceptions have been Robert Coates's lyric descriptions of driving in Yesterday's Burdens, Sherwood Anderson's awed observations in Kit Brandon. Last week a 29-year-old novelist made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments...
...that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression in its simplest form. I have no use for 'working-out' in dramatic or lyric music...
...irrepressible wife last week, "would be good if he would only practice." Ormandy 's strongest test came with Schubert's Seventh Symphony which, though it left him dripping with perspiration, showed a surprising authority over the Stokowski players, meticulous care for detail and phrasing, a lyric gift keenly adapted to Schubert's own sense of song...
...categories of "Entertainments" and of "Music" anything may be found from a magician to a fencer, a Lyric Tenor to a Concert Planist. Curtis Beach, Ben Bar and others offer a marionette show; Kingsley Perry performs feats of ventriloquism...
...nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman with her diamond rings pulls that man around by her apron strings...