Word: musee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poems published in 1537. Titian surely would not have looked down on such an assignment; his greatest paintings were also illustrations-mainly of the Bible and of pagan myths. Whether actually Titian's or not. the Met's woodcut of a poet dreamily worshiping his muse shows a humanistic spirit typical of the 16th century, when artists took life itself for their province, describing it largely in terms of the human face and figure...
...Anson Page has never even met-a great and aging American novelist called Garvin Wales, literary master of Southern sordidness. For years Wales has depended on a brilliant New York editor named Philip Greene, who served the novelist not only as friend but as a kind of Madison Avenue muse. Now that Greene is dead, the novelist's wife suddenly accuses Greene of having stolen $20,000 of her husband's hard-earned royalties...
...cerebral meningitis). Humor was his nature, sorrow only his perversity-as he himself may have realized, for it is said that when confronted with a huge bill for a surgical operation toward the end of his life, he sank back into the arms of the Comic Muse, saying: "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means...
...imagined detail to gratify either history or Hollywood. When Author Brock tries, in a sort of romantic, Irving Stone style, to read the great man's thoughts, the portrait of the remote and terrible Turk turns into semifiction. After an early setback, for instance, Ataturk is made to muse: "Yes, Pasha, and like that monstrous egg in the rhyme for children, you had a great fall." In the end, Author Brock's purplish flights-the old roughneck gallops off as a kind of ghost rider in the sky-obscure the black-and-white facts of Ataturk...
...some who muse On the allegory Affect to find It a pious joke; To the beggar what use, For Martin what glory In deed half-kind And part of a cloak...