Word: musing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sappho in Russian Poetry: Uses and Abuses of the Tenth Muse--by Diana Burgin, professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Coolidge Hall, room...
...demons by portraying the war as a rite of passage -- to fratricide. In Talk Radio he suggested that the penalty for a showman's reckless truth telling was to be killed by his audience. Jim Morrison, in The Doors, pays a similar fee for fame; the poet's capricious muse drives him to drugs, madness, death. Oddly enough, Stone's tortured artistic mission -- dispensing downers to a movie public famously addicted to escapism -- has its upside. He pours so much dramatic juice into the hemlock blender that folks go to his films, and official Hollywood has rewarded Stone with three...
...addition to campaigning vigorously for first choice support, candidates muse seek voters who would list them as their second choice...
...Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh, critic Greil Marcus points out, is "a mythic incantation . . . To Morrison ((it is)) the gift of the muse and the muse itself...
...hear Morrison courting this muse in the Pentecostal growls and incantations of Listen to the Lion on his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview, or personifying it on his new album in Village Idiot, whose protagonist "wears his overcoat in the summer/ And short sleeves in the winter time" but who is nourished by some secret spiritual serenity: "Don't you know he's onto something . . . / Sometimes he looks so happy/ As he goes strolling...