Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters will seem a disservice to Allen's ghost. To anyone who cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance Writer Joe McCarthy, who claims to have edited this collection, did no such thing...
...with Midland and Irish accents when appropriate, to show that the street song is more often comic or dramatic than tender. "The golden age of innocence and love was in the country," he said. He added that if using the street ballad as social criticism requires "marking the literary muse into the literary prostitute, I'm in favor...
Eliot lies in ashes. Auden flogs his muse infrequently in exile. England, for so many centuries "a nest of singing birds," finds herself today unwontedly in want of a great poet she can call her own. Yet in a quiet nook of Yorkshire, a strange bird occasionally lifts his voice to cantillate the fierce interior music of a tortured and solitary sensibility...
...murder plot itself, and the mock trial that follows it, Writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and Director Richard Quine make the mistake of thinking that the muse of comedy is a rubber-limbed contortionist, and sometimes stretch the fun to the breaking point. Luckily, the supporting cast shows such spirit that Lemmon has to work hard for his share of the laughs. As the gentlemen's gentleman who would not hesitate one moment to help rub out a superfluous lady, Terry-Thomas hyphenates the movie with tomfoolery, holding whole scenes together by letting his face fall apart...
...dead-often seems a creation of the proud will, not the passions. But for the careful ear there is strong music, cool and casually regular. Gregory is a highly professional craftsman who has chosen to work mostly in silver and pewter and dull bronze, rarely in gold. His muse is a plain girl, easily overlooked in flashy company-but the eye wanders back to her, for she has perfect skin, fine bones, a direct, grey gaze and a clear mind...