Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sonja Henie, whose skates are lyric, was named Least Cooperative Actress of the Year by the Hollywood Women's Press Club. Runners-up: Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Lana Turner. Men's champion: Walter Pidgeon. Said he: "It's just like being nominated for the Academy award...
...seventh annual group of Nieman fellows, consisting of one weekly newspaper editor, eight daily newsmen, and one magazine editor, is equipping itself to deal with post-war problems. The newspapermen average three courses each in Government and Economics, although the subjects of other courses range from Lyric Poetry to Astronomy...
...Wrath of Achilles. The Iliad has never been translated into English as successfully as the Odyssey, of which George Chapman in the 16th and William Morris in the 19th Century made accomplished versions. The Iliad has less narrative charm and less of the lyric graces that are easy for English poetry. Translators' English has seldom touched its humor and power...
...Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
Long before the decade's most famous book title was lifted from this lyric, the poems of Ernest Christopher Dowson were a part of the established pattern of English poetry-"not speech, but perfect song," said Dowson's late, great contemporary, William Butler Yeats. But about the poet himself the mists of time and faded memoirs had drawn close. Little but his friend Arthur Symons' brief, exquisite biographical essay had preserved the memory of the Mauve Decade's most desperately romantic life...