Word: paeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressionistic paean celebrated "the superficial truth of streets and structures, the trivial truth of reality." Subsequent early stories offered the kind of warming uplift that a Depression-stricken nation wanted to hear. But there was a scratchier side to this earthy romanticism. In 1940 the playwright rejected a Pulitzer Prize for the Broadway hit The Time of Your Life on the grounds that business could not judge art. As a Hollywood scenarist he squabbled with studio heads and cut a raffish, boisterous figure Gambling and drinking contributed to the breakup of his marriage and the decline of his fortunes...
...quoi--I guess you could call it desperation. You see, nobody I've ever really wanted to meet at 2:30 in the morning is ever in Tommy's, but I keep going anyway. Look, it's something to do. It distends the evening. Tommy's is a regular paean to Possibility, and at 2:30 in the morning those things can be important...
...bursting out in wondrous and unexpected ways: the audience supplying a liberal amount of sympathy and imagination: and even the most accomplished contributions kept modest and self-effacing. It's a deceptively lumbering production, and not an inappropriate one. Aladdin in Three Acts is Mayer's wise and innocent paean to adolescence, that "state of grace" before the mask has been cemented to one's face, when one's body contains the universe and one's possibilities are similarly boundless. He has gathered his former classmates and collaborators--as well as a talented group of undergraduates--together in the Agassiz...
...demons fled with the first warm spring winds, men's coach Harry Parker mumbled a paean of praise, did some extra push-ups in exultation and the boats hit the water on February 9th this year...
...acquired an exaggerated reputation as a composer, Swados displays an anemic talent for making anything remotely resembling good music. For someone who is 29, she is strangely fixated on the '60s. Her songs, both for Alice in Concert and her previous show Runaways, a short-lived paean to urchin street vandals, sound, at their very best, like numbers that the composers of Hair threw in the wastebasket...