Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime barber and carpenter, Pedro Infante broke into the movies 15 years ago and quickly rose to fame as a last man with a gun or a girl, and a mellow man with a lyric. Dressed in his familia charro jacket and wide sombrero, he drew mobs wherever he went in Latin America -and most of the crowd was female, proudly claimed 14 children, legitimate and illegitimate. His wife Maria Luisa put up with his escapades for 18 years but he divorced her five years ago and married Actress Irma Dorantes. Just two weeks ago the Supreme Court nullified...
...hall the announcer (who doubles as electrician) checked the lights while the performers dotted scenery around the bare stage. Within an hour the seven-member pocket opera company was proving again what it had already shown in 148 other stops of its tour through the French provinces: the liveliest lyric drama in France today comes not from the creaky, crustaceous old Paris Opéra, or even from the more lighthearted Opéra-Comique, but from the weary Renault...
...Catullus, died around 54 B.C., ten years before Caesar was assassinated; the youngest, Juvenal, was born around 60 A.D., six years after Nero came to power. In little more than a century these poets witnessed the death of the republic and the rise and corruption of the empire. Whether lyric or satiric, they were poets of disenchantment ("A bitterness arose, a pang among the flowers"), and melancholy broods between their lines...
...kind of music they normally listened to and could sing. The last real folk Mass, he believes, was written in the 16th century by one John Marbeck, a convicted heretic "I took the liturgy of the Prayer Book, Beaumont explains, "and tried to regard it simply as a lyric that somebody wanted me to write the music...
...poems included in this small book are almost entirely reissues of work published in 1938. They represent examples of middle ground in Greek lyric poetry...