Word: muses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
WHEN ASKED TO MUSE ON THE avant-garde of the generation before his own, the man who became perhaps the most influential avant-garde dramatist of the 20th century savored the historical irony. "They all wanted to destroy culture," he said, "and now they're part of our heritage." The same thing happened to the father of "theater of the absurd" (he preferred the label theater of derision, saying, "It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind"). In 1950, Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano opened in Paris to catcalls, and a performance...
...town there are a few clubs. The best is The Box, on Dave Street across from the Finast supermarket (21 and over only, please). The Muse on Athletic Ave. also features live music...
...might expect this sort of thing from Peninsula, with its history of offensive writing. After all, their patron muse is the undisputed king of the obnoxious, Rush Limbaugh. A former Peninsula staff member quoted anonymously in The Crimson said he thought the magazine was often intentionally inflammatory...
...every garret somewhere, young writers languish, pursuing the muse. It's a funny business, writing. Some of us write best while languidly recovering from the excesses of the weekend, secure in the knowledge that with the rented dog returned, epiphanies will be abundant...