Word: lyrically
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...fans, hide the frogs from their enemies. Frolicking again, the frogs ride a turtle like a raft. Time for a supper snack of algae and dragonfly eggs, and the frogs' perfect day is done. Mrs. Kepes draws the way jazz sounds, and her book is an improvised underwater lyric...
Erica, by contrast, is the lyric tragedy of a shy, dreaming eight-year-old girl who. during the bitter days after World War II. realizes that her family is poor. From that moment on. she is haunted by the fear that her parents will abandon her, her younger brother and sister in the forest-as poor parents often do in stories she had heard. When her father and mother finally do abandon the children to seek work elsewhere. Erica is relieved. Now 14, she feels responsible, mature, freed at last from the terror of waiting. Stubbornly refusing the neighbors...
...annual Maggio Musicale, The Merchant was a taut and impressive work. Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco had so skillfully stitched music to text that every word rang with its original clarity. The opera, like much of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's work, was elegantly orchestrated, marked by sweeping vocal lines and shimmering lyric passages that echoed his admiration for Puccini. Although the Italian lines fell strangely on some ears ("Non ha un ebreo occhi?"-Hath not a Jew eyes?), the audience gave Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Merchant 15 echoing curtain calls...
...Judith G. Kirshner '62 has received the John Osborne Sargent Award for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace...
...leisure," writes Critic George Steiner in The Kenyan Review. "Music today is the central fact of lay culture." While music soars, argues Steiner, language suffers, as evidenced by advertising lingo, by the intrusion of science's untranslatable symbols into language and, in literature, by Hemingway's "lyric shorthand" and the inarticulateness of Arthur Miller's heroes. Says Steiner: "When one is tired, music, even difficult music, is easier to enjoy than serious literature. The new middle class in the affluent society reads little, but listens to music with a knowing delight. Where the library shelves once stood...