Word: lyrically
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...that to criticize the absence is almost beside the point. Miss Welty is apparently interested in the world and in people chiefly as embodiments of love, enchantment and death. Moreover, Miss Welty is not writing stories. She is using words to create works of art which lie somewhere between lyric poetry, painting, the still untouchable possibilities of color photography, and dancing. A young Negro dandy in a zoot suit becomes, in Miss Welty's perception, an image of almost Shakespearean loveliness...
TIME has given me a good introduction to the work of a man whom I knew I ought to know. For this, thank you. Toward the end of the review a lyric is quoted, The dove descending . . . which strikes me hard with pleasure in the poetry and in the impact of the thought...
...pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song, and Hi-De-Ho-High is good Waller husky-dusky. One lyric offers the final criticism of liquid hosiery...
...fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...
George Bemberg's "The Craftmanship in Paul Valery" heads an excellent critical section. Expert and authoritative, if overly lyric in its praise, the article is mainly handicapped by its audience's unfamiliarity with the subject matter. Fortunately many well chosen quotations will aid readers over unfamiliar ground. An expanded book review section and a series of three columns on Music, Theatre, and Art add unusual critical depth to the issue...