Word: musings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond likes these moments of reverie. His purely personal opinion is that in this day of language requirements and divisional far too little time is left to muse away in free thoughts that ramble up where the smoke rings fade off into the dark...
Advertisements which knock instead of boosting have become rare in the U. S. But last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over which hung a weeping muse (presumably Euterpe) and beside which sat a howling hound. The caption was: "The robot as an entertainer-Is the substitution for real music a success?" The advertising "story" appended was the American Federation of Musicians' complaint against substituting mechanically synchronized music for orchestras in theatres...
...common with the more typical energy of such men as Sandburg. The plot of the masque is of little consequence, and consists of a series of wrangles by a group of characters fancifully entitled Rabbot, Porcupine, Fox, etc., about inconsequential topics and the efforts of Thalia, the Rustic Muse, to restore peace. Around this outline are massed a series of natural descriptions, almost everyone of which is filled with this longing for solitude and repose...
...small comfort to be told that the intensity of competition demands that these consultations with the muse, or fury, of football be held in solitude. And insult is added to injury by the honeyed information that on the Thursday before the Yale game the team will run through signals before the public eye. It is but a hollow victory when one's champion upon the field of battle loses all human interest behind a mask of secret practice...
...fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...