Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric, "the brides of long ago" parade as they have paraded in vaudeville for 15 years...
...Lyric--"The Chocolate Soldier". Don't miss this...
...Praise of Practically Nothing, won the epithet "incomparable." The book was a refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...
...Lyric--"Young Sinners". Good fun, but not so clean...
...pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried to destroy humanity, the nineteenth century." Says Lawrence, if men had a sane feeling about sex, two things would disappear; the love lyric, the smoking-room story. "You can't do it by being wise and scientific about it, like Dr. Marie Slopes: though to be wise and scientific like Dr. Marie Stopes is better than to be utterly hypocritical. . . . The way to do it is, first, to fight the sentimental...