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Pioneer in the composition of English congregational hymns was Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Author of Our* God, our help in ages past, often voted the greatest English hymn of all, Watts was also a writer of hymns for children, authored the well-known query, "How doth the little busy bee . . ." and the warning that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." But his touch for juvenile hymns is not always suited to modern taste. For example...
...amazed by the hurdles thrown in the path of the judges at the National Spelling Bee [TIME, June 5]. The laugh should have been on those who meddled with the dictionary spellings, rather than on the contest judges . . . To spell supersede with a "c" and coruscate with a double "r" is to disregard the Latin roots from which they stem. Sedere and cedere have entirely different meanings in Latin...
...this trend continues, there will soon be no purpose in a spelling bee. When we reach phonetic spelling (it will then be fonetic), the stupid will be able to spell as well as the bright...
...life, like a bee at a rose, began very early to torment Rainer Maria Rilke. It tormented him unceasingly for 51 years, extracting from him a rarefied poetry that has delighted the palates of European esthetes for the last quarter-century. Yet Rilke's poetic flavors-and the morbid scent of wet rot that rises from his life-have prevented many a poetry reader from acquiring the Rilke taste...
...Most Bee staffers disagree. Growled one copyreader: "I get my Liebestraum all mixed up with my rape. And on a deadline, it's murder." Five times in the past year, unrelaxed, unidentified staffers have stopped the Muzak. Last week a chilling notice was tacked on the bulletin board: "Anyone turning it [the music] off again will be fired immediately. [Signed] Myron Depew, City Editor." Since newspaper jobs are hard to get, Muzak will now probably play on unmolested...