Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute jingles about the United Nations. WNEW has also made transcriptions of the songs for the use of other stations in the U.S. and in other English-speaking countries. They were written by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer, authors of WNEW's Little Songs About Big Subjects.* Sample lyric...
...Samole lyric...
...jubilee, these were somewhat chilly and impersonal phrases, and it was perhaps significant that of all the songs written for the occasion, one of the most popular with the Komsomoltsy themselves was a sentimental little lyric entitled Farewell, Accordion Player. It records the unhappiness of the girls in the village on learning that their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies...
...letters, the work of John Ward Ostrom (associate professor of English at Wittenberg College), is essential to every serious student of Poe's career; but on the basis of this collection alone the reader might well form a picture of America's greatest lyric poet as a hardworking, businesslike, irritable literary politician...
This treasure of a message, pried up after many heaves of grandiloquent rhetoric, might better have been left buried. But among the shorter lyrics that follow it are several which may give the reader an extraordinary sense ot pleasure. For, slight though they are, they announce the survival of one of the finest of American lyric talents...