Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course in Lyric Poetry by Robert Hillyer, Boylston Professor in Rhetoric and Oratory, and two half-courses on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, to be given by Harry T. Levin, Faculty instructor in English, are two of the alterations in next year's schedule...
Professor Hillyer's course in Lyric Poetry replaces the subject matter of English 4, which this year's catalogue describes as a course on English Drama from the Beginning...
Frank Dobie once rather embarrassedly confessed that he had preferred teaching to ranching because he liked the trembling sensations which English lyric poetry aroused in him. He is the nearest thing the Southwest has to a cultural voice. When he proposed to the English faculty a course in the literature of Texas and the Southwest, he was refused on the grounds that the Southwest had no literature. He forthwith proposed a course in Life and Literature of the Southwest, "guaranteeing that we at least had life," and has been teaching it, to thousands, for years. Gripes...
...Concert Master: Gilbert and Sullivan 8:30 A program of Ballads: Wallace Stegner, Instructor in English. 8:45 Frannie Powers, Mike Brody, and others in return engagements with Wheaton field hockey team. 9:00 Hot Off the Record. 9:30 Radio Workshop Production. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: Grieg, Lyric Suite. Corelli, Christmas Concerto. Spanish Civil War Songs. 10:45 Bed Time Story. 10:55 News...
Writers of The Free Company contribute their services gratis, with CBS underwriting all other costs, including the expense of short-waving the show to Latin America. The Bill of Rights provides a pattern for the series. Following Saroyan's lyric outbursts on illuminated Americans, Robert Sherwood will dwell on freedom of the press, Marc Connelly on freedom to teach, Orson Welles on freedom of assembly, Archibald MacLeish on freedom of speech, Paul Green on racial freedom. Filling out the broadcasts, now designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson...