Word: verse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLeish's writing runs the gamut from the loftiest poetic imagery to colloquial vulgarisms. And he makes use of an effective gimmick for underscoring certain crucial lines by employing a celestial prompter over a loudspeaker, whose words are then delivered by the actor on stage; it brings to mind the...
For one thing, they must still seem like insect and animal. For another, their story is a problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in...
The group of Renaissance secular pieces fared moderately well. They have no accompaniment, and occasionally suffered from insecure pitch. Lassus' Mon coeur went too slowly for my taste; and Monteverdi's dramatic early Baroque madrigal Dorinda lay a bit high for the sopranos. Schmidt wisely used only an octet for...
Vers Mickeles Dean, Radcliffe '28, research head of the Foreign Policy Association, will speak on the "Next Phase of United States Foreign Policy" at a public address at 8 p.m. Wednesday in New Lecture Hall. Announcement of the lecture was made by S.D.A. head Helen Margolis '52 at a meeting...