Word: lyrically
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...Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream device, they have welded a series of bizarre climaxes into a tremendously effective play. Philosophic and graphic elements were so intermingled as to provide the necessary portions of entertainment with a message so pungent. Incomprehensible as that message was at times, it only served as a challenge...
...John Osborne Sargent prize of $200, for the best metrical translation into English of a lyric poem of Horace, was divided equally between Richard L. Wing '40, of New Bedford, and Melvin H. Freedman '41, of Brookline...
...campaign was lyric. Baring a blinding smile, tossing his wavy locks, Mr. Zeidler popped up everywhere. Six hundred women, gathered at the Elks Club one afternoon, were surprised and thrilled to see Candidate Zeidler step out beside a lovely brunette mannequin in a bridal gown, and taking her arm, walk down the aisle singing I Love You Truly. Six hundred lumps filled 600 throats. While Dan Hoan, in his twangy voice, reminded Milwaukeeans that he had given them a city free of political scandal, free of crime, with a model police force and fire department, a city debt that...
...personal magnetism is terrific. He can stand for hours on a speaking platform, his fists clenched, denouncing, weeping, pleading, laughing-and sweeping before him the most hostile listeners. Terrified for his life, he even mistrusts foreign correspondents, who must be frisked before he will see them. He is a lyric poet, and writes with an exquisite hand-a great accomplishment in classical China. Since he is the only really big Chinese to favor their cause, the Japanese prize him like some fragile T'ang Dynasty vase. Despite his record as a shifty recreant, despite the fact that Chinese honor...
...anthology were made of it, this novel would contain perhaps 100 each of almost incredibly beautiful poems, lyric paintings, scenes from motion pictures. Faulkner has learned more from films, and could give them more, than any other writer...