Word: lyrically
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Tabuteau's technique is matched by his musicianship. He can turn a melodic phrase with a lyric grace matched by few virtuosos of any instrument. Famous pianists and violinists who play with the Philadelphia Orchestra listen reverently to the accent of his Beethoven or Brahms. Other oboists* listen to Philadelphia recordings and performances just to study Tabuteau...
Little brother Ulysses, meanwhile, has made himself, in his four-year-old wanderings, the most delicately engaging character in the book. Saroyan seldom manages to embody emotions, but his lyric talent can brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing his mother an egg as importantly as if it were the Eucharist; or, with a half-witted friend, scanning the books in the Public Library; or, before a robot in a shopwindow, first realizing death...
...human body." While O'Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work, utterly original, has graphic cleanliness, economy, purity, a lyric quality suggesting that of Poetess Emily Dickinson...
...attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric element into the novel, turning from the epic style of earlier novelists to focus on the moment, on the unique personal experience. This experience is given added poignancy by her feeling that "personality . . . was a unity arising out of continual change...
Today Johnny Mercer lives in a Hollywood bungalow, tailors lyrics to fit the suavely hocketing voice of his friend Bing Crosby, rolls up between $50,000 and $85,000 a year in cinema lyric contracts and ASCAP royalties. A one-finger pianist, he does his composing with the help of Tunesmith Harold Arlen. After a two-hour stretch with Tunesmith Arlen, he usually knocks off for an afternoon of golf. Says Johnny: "If I get a good title and the first couple of lines within two hours, that's a damn good day. . . . Most of my titles and lyrics...