Word: musee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Triumphant o'er a prostituted muse...
Triumphant o'er a prostituted muse...
From Washington, D.C, came a letter from ex-Ambassador Jusserand of France, telling Smith of Pierre the Citizen rather than of Poet Pierre, favorite of the Muse. Wrote M. Jusserand: "His relations were of a dual sort, strangely contrasted. Being a court poet ... he was in duty bound to praise the monarchs. . . . But what is out of the common is that, when he had performed this duty ... he resumed his right of free speech as a citizen to say to those men, who 'were men like ourselves,' he thought, and 'who happen to have been born kings,' what were their...
...century after Harvard," he used to say, "to counteract our radical influence. She has been after us ever since, until now she has taken to winning." Nevertheless, the tribe of Harvard men and of Wendells continued to strive for victory, and the chances are that hereafter the dramatic muse will be even more assiduously wooed...
...there is danger in the subsidy of a muse. The artist who is too heavily wined and dined comes to regard his profession as an avocation, and soon spends his time in resting up for another dinner. Christopher Morley recognized this when he said: "I am and always have been too well fed. Great literature, proceeds from an empty stomach." Michigan must be careful not to be too lavish, or it will destroy that which it wishes to foster...