Word: musee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ezra Pound was one of the magazine's first contributors. Within a few years (and a few pages) a lot of poets are sounding like Pound. The muse seems hardly to notice World War I; the next conflagration receives extended attention from writers as diverse as Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro and Robinson Jeffers. Teacher-poets appear in the '30s and '40s: R.P. Blackmur, William Empson, Allen Tate. A generation later is heard the dry academic rustle of those they taught...
...there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers might just as well dance off into the sunset. Something essential gets lost, but somehow it doesn't matter. Unless, as with most musicals, you muse at length...
...Chorus Line. Terpsichore is the divine Muse of this musical as Choreographer Michael Bennett takes the parade-ground drill of the Radio City Rockettes and raises it to a Platonic idea...
...first reunion since graduation, Procter and Gamble Executive Jack Simpson claimed convincingly that he was delighted to be there, jostling hip to hip with dozens of others under a dripping canvas before the bonfire finally got lit. "It's marvelous," said he, and went on to muse on time's familiar way of shrinking one's childhood world: "When I was a kid, that Allegheny Bridge was the Golden Gate. Today I realized I could clear it with a 9-iron...
...incredible control just leave you agape." I turn the radio off and finish this column. Wouldn't it be nice if Brother Blue were right? Wouldn't it be nice if Louis and Django did jam every night, just for fun? "Humbling thought," as George Wald used to muse...