Word: styx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future of the arts is darker than the Styx; one great influence may change a form of artistic expression permanently. Nevertheless, in its traditional sense, poetry is still a dual form. Its beauty reaches the mind both through the eye and the ear. Many who today are judged as poets aver that poetry is no longer being read aloud, and are writing verse with that in mind. Robert Bridges' last great poem stands in stern contrast to that opinion...
Just before leaving she said, "I am sorry that you had to climb so many steps to get here, but when I was Cleopatra in 'The House Boat on the Styx' I had a room below the stage and just before I was supposed to go on I was covered with a shower of dust from above so that you couldn't tell whether I was very badly tanned from my ride in the barge or just plain Topsy." Her final remark was in Italian, or perhaps it was Spanish. But she said it in such a disarming tone...