Word: lyricizing
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Similarly when Nora, his wife, talks about him, she speaks in metaphors more lyric than conversational. As they kiss passionately she cries "all my body moves to my throat with...
Actually, Nagy not only took a whale-watching cruise off Cape Cod, he also completed a book of literary criticism on the work of Pindar, an archaic Greek lyric poet...
...someone whose career began in 1917 with the lyric "You may throw all the rice you desire.But please, friends, throw no shoes" and concluded in 1954 with his lyrics for the Bing Crosby movie The Country Girl, Ira Gershwin did not do badly. Last week, when he died at 86, he had a "new" Broadway hit on Broadway (My One and Only, featuring 17 Gershwin songs) and a "new" movie about to be released (the restored, three-hour version of A Star Is Born, the 1954 Judy Garland vehicle he wrote with Harold Arlen). The words he set to music...
More than 330 high school teachers applied for the 15 slots in the poetry seminar, Vendler said, adding that the final group of teachers was both diverse and highly dedicated to the study of lyric poetry...
...Mayor Harold Washington rejected it, calling it slow and none too spunky. Now Jacobs is not getting the prize money, and the weary committee must reopen the competition. Said Essee Kupcinet, head of the committee: "I can't face listening to another song." Washington said he prefers a lyric filled with the names of famous Chicagoans. Right on, mayor. For starters...