The Lynx With The Lusty Larynx

The Lynx with the Lusty Larynx"Music," as every bonehead knows who has read Act I, Scene I of William Congreve's The Mourning Bride, "hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." Now, Mr. Congreve's Restoration pen was a facile one, and we had always chalked off this high-blown phrase as a pleasant enough bit of fluff, but little more. That's what we thought until catching our first long glimpse of big-eyed, full-mouthed, eminently-configure...