Word: muses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Visotzky sought to settle his Genesis crisis in a way that came naturally to him: through Bible study. Some time before, when Visotzky, a professor at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, had first begun to muse about the work's peculiarities, he had initiated in the school's cafeteria a monthly dinner discussion dedicated to making its way through the book a chapter at a time. Instead of the academics and rabbis who were his usual conversation partners, however, he stocked the group with an interfaith roster of fiction writers, hoping they might have insight into human character...
...rosy-fingered dawns"--were actually stock formulas allowing the bard to fill out his line of verse and get on with the story. The pressure on these performers, composing while they spoke or sang, must have been intense. Seen in this light, the poet's invocations to the Muse for inspiration at the beginning of the Iliad and the Odyssey have a dimension beyond the religious; these pleas could also represent a nervous bard, faced with a gathering of drowsy aristocrats, saying God help...
...humorous interchange, Beverly resident Jim Muse asked the candidates why voters should send a popular governor to Washington rather than keep him closer to home...
...back to the drawing board, and I listen for the sound of the muse...
...muse speaks again...