Word: musee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shape a whole evening about Evita Peron that ducks the moral dimensions of fascism and can adapt poems by T.S. Eliot without tackling any metaphysical notion more complicated than an escalator ride into the clouds. No celestial choirs appear to sing in Lloyd Webber's ears, no muse or demon seems to haunt him, and his concoctions cannot bear close logical inspection. But he can beguile even sophisticated viewers into believing for the moment that they are witnessing highflying...
Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...
...didn't have an answer then, but the Muse seems to have instilled something of a mental picture in my mind. There Lenny, with bunches of school children marching beside him like they did three weeks ago at the opening of the Ave. Bridge. As the mayor and troupe of little followers knock on the St. Peter's pearly gates. Lenny leaned over and, politician-style out of the corner of his mouth, asks the venerable doorkeeper a rather pointed question "So whaddya think...
...ROTC cadets, which comes with a 40-page rule book of strategy and tactics for Soviet-American naval engagements. The author also interviewed former submariners who are now operating the Baltimore Gas & Electric nuclear power plant near his home in Huntingtown, Md. "I didn't get kissed by the muse," he says. "It was hard work...
...bullpen man, not a starter. He is best over a short distance, writing verses about oldtimers' day ("On a green field/ we observe the ruin/ of even the bravest body") or recalling poets devoted to baseball. The game, he reveals, is not always an ennobling or enlightening muse. Walt Whitman covered some contests for the Brooklyn Eagle and in old age asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter cannot hit it?" Marianne Moore, the doyenne of 20th century American poets, was reduced...