Word: lyrically
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...Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing, mysterious, tender and pure. "He is not tall," rhapsodized Author Benjamin, "his body is timid. Ah! His glance is unforgettable...
Depending on the personality of the instructor, Greek B, which takes up the lyric poets in the first half year, was generally endorsed. Assistant Professor Finley reigns here and is well liked for the liveliness of his classes and his interest in literature. Einarson, who instructed in this course last year, is not recommended, partly perhaps, because his inexperience in class work makes his classes dull and because he is more interested in Philology than literature...
Composer Richard Rodgers, 35, and Lyric-Writer Lorenz Hart, 43, are the best-known words-&-music team on Broadway, with 24 shows behind them, including such hits as the two editions of the Garrick Gaieties, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, and the current I'd Rather Be Right. Their collaboration started when they wrote two Columbia Varsity shows (though Hart had already left Columbia), then drew their first salute from Broadway with the first Garrick Gaieties, in which Hart thumbed his nose at the June-moon school of lyrics, introduced such slick rhymes...
...crooning Cowhand Gene Autry, top man in his calling and Hollywood's fanciest-chapped Western star, Newcomer Roy Rogers is more than a passing threat. Crooner Autry, picked three years ago from the radio and schooled in lyric foofaraw to start the singing cowboy school of Westerns, is currently holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn...
...something about them. To carry out this decision, which seemed to necessitate writing poems about matters of immediate popular concern, Poet MacLeish began to top-work his poetry on to popular art forms. First sizable sprout to grow from this top-working was Panic (1935), a graft of lyric poetry on the drama. This verse-play depicted a scene from the currently-expected crack-up of what Communists call Capitalism, capitalists call civilization. Most of those who saw Panic agreed that it was more theatrics than theatre, felt that it only confirmed the general rule that verse-plays should...