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Following the Muse...
...soften the horror of this mind-fuck, society, has set up a new earth-mother of its own--television. The boy had often sat for hours at a time watching the images flicker before him. Here, indeed, was the goddess of the modern world; here was the new muse calling, the muse of totally destructive mindlessness. Hour after hour, he could stare at the grey screen, giving himself to it; and he was grateful to it because it made him stop thinking, it took over his mind, and gave him the peace of forgetfulness that he could not find...
...course, one can always depend on the Loeb for meticulous sets and costumes. This time they are executed with the usual expertise by Randall Darwell and Tom Owen respectively. Still, pretty clothes aren't enough to resuscitate what Goldsmith saw as the dying muse of comedy. There are occasionally lively moments in the current Loeb production, but for the most part it is like attending the sick bed of a lingering old grandam...
Producer Schlatter, who is in charge of these tapings, also acts as referee and muse. Burly, bearded, he sits atop a tall stool in the studio, juggling phones, flipping through scripts, arguing with the censor and, occasionally, pinching the behind of any girl who is careless enough to stray within range...
...Irish poet William Butler Yeats; of a heart attack; in Dublin. "How should I forget the wisdom that you brought/ The comfort that you made?" wrote Yeats in 1919, two years after his marriage to the witty, cultured English woman who was his confidante, and to some extent, muse. In 1963, nearly 30 years after his death, she gave Ireland's National Library a collection of his manuscripts that officials termed "one of the most munificent gifts since the founding of the state...