Word: musee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoping in the Gloom. Hardy's poems are limited in emotion; says Critic Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder...
...calling you old Goody Muse...
...Goody Muse; on thee I call...
...King's Henchman (score by Deems Taylor) was the Met's opera of the year and her published libretto went through four editions in a few weeks. She wrote less & less. In her mid-40s, stirred by rumblings of World War II, she called her muse to the colors, but seldom got beyond the rear areas. The respectable versifying of her last years never recaptured the fine girlish frenzy...
Emergency Supplies. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Olga Muse filed suit against her ex-husband Joseph to recover 14 cans of fish, one elastic stocking, five boots, one crystal ball...