Word: boney
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...What names in early rock rhymed with Boney, Lawdy, Dizzy, Good Golly, and Ready...
...thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through which such awareness flows is the aging poet full of misgivings and reminiscences: "My numinous map/ of the Solihull gasworks/ gazed at in awe/ by a bronchial boy." "Who am I now?" he asks, and answers...
...marries a boney woman with a moon face whose voice was never a very good imitation of Marilyn Monroe's. If she hadn't married a President, she wouldn't have rated a second look in Dubuque, Iowa...
...aficionados well know, it was Lieutenant Hornblower who decimated "Boney's" Spanish fleet in the West Indies in 1800, Commander Hornblower who intercepted the French troops that Napoleon tried to sneak into Ireland in 1804, Commodore Hornblower who inspired Sweden to join the war and gave Czar Alexander the courage to stand up and fight in 1812. And when the end finally came at Waterloo, there was Lord Hornblower, leading a band of guerrillas that tied up nine battalions of Napoleon's troops. Not until now, however, did anyone guess that it was young Captain Hornblower...
WILLIAM A. BONEY Pittsburgh...