Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was 36, Gide wrote in his Journals: "Never a man, I shall never be anything but an aged child. I live with all the incoherence of a lyric poet, but two or three ideas, crosswise in my brain and rigid like parallel bars, crucify every joy. . . ." Certainly there is little enough of joy in the aged child's day-to-day confessional. Touchy and lacking creative confidence, he worked from compulsion and usually despaired of the results, cringed before criticism, sought solace in voracious reading and five-hour-long sessions at the piano...
...those who don't like to browse through the latest Italian periodicals but still prefer the Latin touch, there are three record machines with which to catch up on the latest cafe lyric and singers. One of the machines is even equipped with carphones for those personal discs...
...included enunciation, programing and "how we acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
Sports are Bob Stanton's specialty, and sports thus far are television's biggest attraction. Once, back in 1932, he had a brief fling at singing in a band (his onetime lyric tenor has now become a well-modulated announcer's baritone), but singing was "too much of a grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap...
Barbara K. Smyth, Radcliffe '50, won the John Osborne Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem Horace. The award amounts...