Word: musee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle for his muse on lawyer-dominated Capitol Hill. Says Kearns, who, at the request of Secretary of State Dulles, recently conducted four Air Force Symphony concerts in Iceland: "If I could put a Sputnik into the air, I would like to have it wired for sound and have it play 'Peace...
...tidy little gardens of verse periodically raked up by Poetot Minou Drouet have nurtured some singularly muse-smitten responses: by the latest count, the lady's Christmas mail included some 20 proposals of marriage. Lest any readers be tormented by life imitating Lolita, the daily Paris-Journal solemnly presented reassurance: petite Minou, 11, has rejected her suitors...
Belt of the Muse. In moments of introspection Musician Engel thinks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "That genius," he says, "wrote to order. He had no time for the muse to belt him." If the muse has failed to lay a glove on Engel, it is chiefly because he moves too fast. He has presided over the pit orchestras of roughly 130 Broadway productions, headed an esoteric organization called the Madrigal Singers, written reams of articles and a bag of books, including a five-volume study of European music entitled Renaissance to Baroque...
Maillol's sculpture has seldom been shown in Boston, the museum points out. It is good to see Aphrodite and the muse hand in hand behind enemy lines...
...brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly engage the democratic process in support of the muse usually wind up attempting to lift a few aristocrats from the debris. Lyonel Feininger was always one of the aristocrats...