This is a city whose savage breast has need of soothing, so music, he hopes, will play on.

"They say that music has charms to soothe the savage breast," Pacian said.

And how hope leaped in my savage breast!

So why do these two talented writers go to such lengths in order to show poetry soothing the savage breast?

"Ben and Jerry's soothes the savage breast a lot better than music," she said.

Probably some urban planner's idea of what soothes the savage breast.

And yet "Quantum" is a work to soothe the savage breast.

Music's power to heal is no secret: it has long been known to soothe the savage breast and perhaps improve its functioning.

His face set in grim lines as he raised it; then he drove it through the savage breast.

THE word is out: music has the ability not only to soothe the savage breast but a child - and parent - as well.