Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the word rose that calls up images of sweetly perfumed balconies on sultry moon-lit evenings in the spring, and maidens eager to be stormed thereon, and oh! so tenderly captured, we don't know. But we're perfectly sure that if the vicissitudes of language had caused Romeo to climb by a trellis of cucumbers to Juliet's bower to gain that soul-stirring kiss, the play might as well not have been written. There's a hidden meaning, a kind of divinity, that gives "rose" a power over the senses that not another vegetable possesses...
...professor of English, whose "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1934, Archibald MacLeish '19, author of the verse play, "Panic", now running in London after a successful season in New York, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English and consultant on the recent motion picture production of "Romeo and Juliet...
...carrying a miniature chess set in his pocket as usual, Prokofieff had ready a new work embodying what he said was a new melodic line, full of "new curves" because he thinks that modern music must be melodic yet not reactionary. The work was a suite from a ballet, Romeo & Juliet, which Prokofieff conducted with precise beat and knees that wobbled curiously but in accurate rhythm. The audience, cordial but not unrestrained, found Romeo & Juliet a sly, elusive projection of its subject, more lyric than Prokofieff's early works have been credited with being, but less so than...
Next March the Moscow Philharmonic will give the world premiere of Prokofieff's second suite based on Romeo & Juliet. He also has been commissioned, in connection with the centenary of the death of Poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), to do special music for a cinema and two plays, in all three of which his performance will perforce be compared with those of Russians who have made use of the same Pushkin works: Boris Godunov (Moussorgsky), Pique-Dame and Eugene Oniegin (Tchaikovsky...
...business was great; and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy." . . . Romeo and Juliet...