Word: sapphic
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...most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been anxious to attend a party at the Verdurins', Marcel goes instead, seeking the cause of the attraction, which develops to be one Mile. Vinteuil, a guest expected there. Follows a detailed description of the evening...
...program will be as follows: Quintet in C major, Op. 163 Shubert Sea Song W.R. Spalding '87 Bugle Song W.R. Spalding '87 Sapphic Ode Brahms The Disappointed Serenader Brahms Bois Epais Lully Intermezzo C.T. Leonard '23 Cypris Edward Ballantine The Shepherds Elegy Edward Ballantine Poem for Pianoforte and Orchestra (arranged for two Pianofortes) Randall Thompson...
...seems not quite at home with its form. "Transition," by Mr. Benshimol, lacks the variety of pause and cadence that blank verse demands, and is not always happy or clear in its figures of speech, but deserves praise for its poetic quality. Mr. Howe's "Morning Song" fills two Sapphic stanzas, each of which has in the third verse one more syllable than the orthodox number. Mr. Howe follows the rhythm of the Latin Sapphic scanned rather than the rhythm of the Latin Sapphic merely read--the rhythm of Swinburne rather than of Cowper. Also he introduces rhyme. In substance...
...touched the Sapphic string...