Word: morleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DIARY OF "HELENA MORLEY" (281 pp.)-Translated and edited by Elizabeth Bishop-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...roster appear such well known names as Rudolph Elie, Boston Herald columnist, William Jackson, librarian of Houghton, and Professor Norbert Weiner of M.I.T. Honorary members include mystery writer Rex Stout, and the late Christopher Morley...
Died. Christopher Darlington Morley, 66, bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...
...Sunday afternoon at Adams House the individual groups were better than the combination. The Radcliffe Freshmen, under Alan Miller, sang with a straightforward style that lacked the slightest affectation. They were at their best in a charming Hymn to Poseidon by Rameau, and Madrigals by Arcadelt, Banchieri, and Morley. A tendency for the first sopranos to get out of tune redeemed itself with sparkling performances of Two Hungarian Songs by Bartok and A Song of Music by Hindemith...
...music of the first part and the situations that it animated glowed with an almost Latin fervor. Andrey and Natasha (well sung by Morley Meredith and Helena Scott) faced each other across a garden ashiver with moonlight and poured out their yearnings in great warm gusts of melody; Natasha pirouetted giddily at a ball and lacily sang her infatuation with Anatol across the shimmer and sheen of violins. In one magnificent ball scene, a percussive, insistent invitation to the dance ("Dance, dance, dance the waltz") eerily foreshadowed the dance of death that was to come on the battlefields. In other...