Word: lyricism
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...anthology with comments-an anthology of the highest common factors in world religion and metaphysical systems." For his own craft as novelist and poet, Aldous Huxley now has small respect. Says Sebastian in Time Must Have a Stop: "Even the best play or narrative is merely glorified gossip. . . . And lyric poetry? Just 'Ow!' or 'Oo-ooh!'or 'Nyum-nyum!' or 'Damn!' or 'Darling...
Schubert: Sonata No. 9, Op. 120 (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia; 3 sides). Delightfully lyric Schubert, affectionately played. Recording: excellent...
...than enough. But ever since Finnegans Wake (1939) Joyce enthusiasts have sought to cut down this lifetime labor by laying a trail through this Joycean jungle, in which Erse, Latin, Dutch, Greek, French, Sanskrit, Russian and Esperanto rankly intertwine themselves with nightmared snatches of popular songs, fables, myths, allegories, lyric poetry, puns* and prophecies...
Morton Downey, who grosses $250,000 a year from radio alone, has no such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
...Berlin's writing is in its honesty, in the maturity of her vision of character, her ability to be unsparing without being malicious. Its weakness is that situations, intense and often moving, are not exhausted of their drama before other complications crowd them out. The book has its lyric passages, but they are more often merely an attempt to achieve lyricism, and the subject is in itself harsh...