Word: couplet
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...academically-sanctioned self-involvement is very appealing), the process of choosing a thesis topic has proven more difficult than I had anticipated. No one topic seems very appealing for more than five minutes. Dreiser, for instance, is all too easily dismissed by Dorothy Parker’s acidly apt couplet, “Theodore Dreiser/ Should ought to write nicer.” And is affection for a cleverly-named sledgehammer really sufficient basis for a months-long project? Catholic (in the sense of ‘peripatetic’) interests have proved to be a liability in my search...
...Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;/ Nought may endure but Mutability;” Shelley proclaims gloomily at the end of “Mutability.” I had long considered Harvard the exception that proved the couplet. Study abroad creates a flux in a place that has long repulsed...
...Klee's angels too. About 35 of the late works, mostly pencil drawings, are devoted to his unique celestial hierarchy. His are not stereotypic seraphim but more fragile, bemusing creatures who weep and clap for joy. According to art historian Werner Haftmann, Klee was long bedeviled by a childlike couplet of his own invention that kept running through his head: Einst werd ich liegen im Nirgend, bei einem Engel irgend, a rhyming play on words which roughly translates as, "One of these days I shall lie in nothingness, beside an angel of some kind." Indeed, there is so much visual...
...introspection. The rest of the album has Hetfield wailing like an extremely aggravated Cat in the Hat. On Invisible Kid he moans, "Invisible kid/Locked away in his brain/From the shame and the pain/World down the drain" while the title track relies on the horrendous would-be couplet "St. Anger around my neck/He never gets any respect...
Power strikes a balance between Jurassic’s signature old-school party sound and so-called “conscious rap.” The result is juxtapositions like 2na’s couplet, “Some of you like the way my words caress tracks / While some of these politicians secretly suppress facts...