Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish critics and himself) the world's greatest conversationalist, playwright (The Enchanted Trousers), poet (Wild Apples, Selected Poems), author (as I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself, he's right"). Characterizing an Irishman as one "who believes best what he knows to be untrue," Gogarty often colored his tall tales...
...rich town of Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 28,000) a new type of commercial well blew in last week. It was the most ambitious test to date of pay-in-the-parlor TV. From the Lyric Theater, a double feature (The Pajama Game and Mississippi Gambler) flashed from noon to midnight into 300 living rooms via coaxial cable, thus presumably avoiding FCC supervision...
...year, and Jiménez is at his best when he evokes the look, the sound, the colors of each passing season. Before he finishes, he has sketched for Platero and the reader a charming and shrewd picture of Spanish life that has the delicacy of a pure lyric, the relentless candor of a reel of film. At the end, Platero is dead, victim of some poisonous root, and it is plain that Jiménez has lost a friend no human can replace...
...group of madrigals Schmidt used a reduced chorus of two dozen. An interesting comparison was afforded in two settings, a half century apart, of the same text--one, by Vecchi, lyric and smooth; the other, by Arcadelt, more dramatic. The singers displayed excellent precision in Lo Schernito, one of the bright and rapid fa-la-la pieces that Gastoldi made a specialty. There followed an amusing Impromptu, written last year by the talented young composer Kirke Mechem...
...young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that...