Word: carpingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada First. As the course and aims of the new government emerged in the past two months. Canadians seemed increasingly pleased with the change of faces in Ottawa. Even Liberal newspapers found little to carp about, and leaders of the opposition parties promised not to "obstruct" the new government. On Oct. 14, Queen Elizabeth II will read a government policy statement to the new 23rd Parliament, and Diefenbaker will then present his legislative program to a hostile majority in the House of Commons. The opposition parties could join forces at any time to overthrow his government and force...
...workshop, students gleefully lay into Engle's poems with the master's own tools of cutting criticism. But few critics carp at his ability as a teacher, and no one doubts his talents as a recruiter of potential poets. Even British Poet Stephen Spender has referred a prospect to him. Englemen wrote fully one-third of the poems in Poets Under Forty, to be published this summer by the Meridian Press. And Henry Rago, editor of Poetry magazine, says: "No poet in the U.S. has done as much for young poets as Paul Engle...
...characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same errors. The author of the Arte says that the carp is "a fish not long knowen in England," while Walton says, "nor hath been long in England." Other coincidences...
Hors d'Oeuvres: caviar, ham, roast beef, salted salmon, carp, sheep cheese, salami, potato salad, stuffed eggs, and fresh tomatoes with chopped green onion tops...
...bull's eye. All this does not make him a "master," for the true masters of art have been those who inspired mankind. Renoir's mission was more that of a chef who served up delicious refreshments for the eyes. Only the harshest of puritans could carp at such a benefactor, or regret his popularity...